Lantern Slides
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content: Robert L. Sardino Movie Theater Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1914-1915, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1471, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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content: Theater owners used a variety of tools including lantern slides to advertise coming attractions as well as imparting news, while also using lantern slides as atmospheric scenes during audience sing-alongs or as filler between showings.  This series is divided into five subseries grouped by producer of the lantern slide. Within their subseries they are arranged according to the acession number assigned by the Divison of Culture and the Arts.