2 Dissolving View Magic Lantern Slides: Aurora & Helios’s Sun Chariot at Dawn For Sale

2 “Dissolving View” Wood-Mount Magic Lantern Glass Slides, Late 19th CenturyItem description is keyed to the numbered images above.The numbers and the word WATERMARK do not appear on the actual slide or slides.Image 1:The wood-mounts measures 7” x 4”. The wood and the glass are without cracks.Images 2 & 3:During the nineteenth century, “Dissolving Views” were two or more magic lantern slides intended to be projected on the same screen at the same time by two or more magic lantern projectors. The slides usually had certain picture elements in common, but differed in some respects to justify the dissolve. By raising or lowering the intensity of the light coming out of the projectors, the projectionist could fade one view into another - causing, for instance, a view of a cottage by day to dissolve into a view of the same cottage by moonlight, or a seemingly dormant volcano to erupt, or a sun-chariot to banish night’s starry sky.First slide - A pre-dawn sky with a crescent moon.Second slide - Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, flying before the sun-chariot of Helios, god of the sun. Helios has quite an entourage.The two slides here were intended as dissolves, but not necessarily with each other. Still, they work well together, and Aurora leading Helios’s flying chariot, surrounded by a black background, can be superimposed over a multitude of images.Images 4 - 11:A composite, showing how the two slides would overlap if they were projected by two magic lanterns as a dissolving view, with the intensity of the light from one projector slowly raised.Image 12:Edges of the wood mounts. A partial paper label on the edge of one wood mount identifies the subject as “Dissolving - b. Flight of Aurora. Aurora and…” Aurora was from Roman mythology. Her Greek counterpart was Eos. This is one of 25 lantern-slide sales ending within 25 minutes of each other. We combine shipping on multiple lots.