PRINTING METHODS LANTERN SLIDES III 



lantern-slides by contact printing any portion 

 of the negative can be utilized, which is not 

 the case with frames of small sizes. A single 

 frame can thus be made to do the work of 

 a number a manifest advantage. 



It seems almost superfluous to say aught 

 as to the making of lantern slides at this late 

 day, when so many thousands of amateurs 

 have become more or less proficient in the 

 art formerly in the hands of professionals 

 alone; but the excellent dry plates of thin 

 glass, so readily obtainable everywhere, with 

 equally thin covers, ready-cut masks and 

 gummed binding strips, have made the pro- 

 duction of a lantern slide so easy that every 

 one undertakes it at times, and with very 

 indifferent success in the majority of cases, 

 mostly preventable. I cannot pretend to enu- 

 merate the causes of these failures or their 

 cure. Every one is familiar with the wretched 

 caricatures too frequently shown upon the 

 screen. There is no need for their being, 

 especially in photo -micrographs. Secure a 

 good negative first; after that proper atten- 

 tion to a few simple details will insure the 

 making of a good lantern slide from it. 

 Nothing can exceed in beauty and interest 

 a thoroughly good lantern picture shown 



