Find out more about what this space is all about here. In the silent film era, these colorized lantern slides were the equivalent of previews or trailers, alerting the audience to the theater’s ...

"These Magic Lantern projectors were originally used in the decade before the silent movies," he said. "You would go to see Magic Lantern shows, which would be a series of slides telling a story ...

Theaters back then were looking out for their best interests, as proven by this delightful Imgur gallery of pre-movie slides from the silent movie era. “Madam,” one asks, “how would you like ...

So did the slides help audiences behave better at silent movie showings? Kind of. A decade later, Emily Post lamented the behavior of movie-going louts, but conceded that manners had improved ...