lantern slide

a slide or transparency for projection by a slide projector or magic lantern.

Origin of lantern slide

First recorded in 1870–75

Groups of people come and go like figures on a lantern-slide.

The Ways of Men |Eliot Gregory
When Sara had stirred ever so faintly, Ram Dass had closed the lantern-slide and lain flat upon the floor.

A Little Princess |Frances Hodgson Burnett
After the second hymn he would announce the coming social events—class prayer-meetings and lantern-slide lectures by missionaries.

The Trail of the Hawk |Sinclair Lewis
For lantern-slide work, which is reducing, it is necessary to cut an aperture in the easel, after the manner shown in Fig. 4.

The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 |Various

Now if the painting is illuminated solely by the “lantern-slide” the range of contrast or brightness will be enormously increased.

Visual Illusions |Matthew Luckiesh

lantern slide

(formerly) a photographic slide for projection, used in a magic lantern