The River Thames from Source to Sea: Sixty glorious photographs, taken in 1880, of a journey down the River Thames from its source to the sea, taken ... slides and the original lecturer's script. - Brossura

Gill, Andrew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1499507992 ISBN 13: 9781499507997

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Riassunto

The magic lantern was the Victorian predecessor of the pre-digital slide projector. In the mid to late 19th century, millions of glass slides were produced to entertain and educate a public eager to see projected pictures, long before cinema was invented. In 1880, a set of sixty, high resolution (in today’s terminology) photographic slides was produced to illustrate a journey down the River Thames from its source to the sea, from Gloucestershire to Southend. This 60 page booklet reproduces those lantern slides. As we travel downstream, we pass watermills, inns, historic buildings, hand-worked ferries, locks, paddle steamers, the university boat race, a traffic-clogged London Bridge, naval training ships, busy seaside scenes and, of course, idyllic English countryside. When the slides were published, they were accompanied by a printed booklet with a slide-by-slide script, so that the lecturer could provide historical background to the photographs on the screen. At the time, people in the audience would have been aware of the importance of London and the River Thames but most would never have the opportunity to visit them. These photographs were fascinating then but now form a unique, historical record of Britain’s most important river. With the accompanying script, they enable us to experience the places visited through the eyes of our Victorian ancestors.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1499507992
• ISBN 13: 9781499507997
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 69