The phrase "lantern show" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a show or performance that involves the use of lanterns, either as a prop or as a main feature. Example: The lantern show at the local festival was a mesmerizing sight, with colorful lanterns illuminating the night sky and dancers twirling around them in a graceful display.
The Magic Lantern Show: a collection of images derived from antique glass projection slides.
Perhaps the most famous description of a child enjoying a magic lantern show appears in the novel Swann's Way (1913) by Marcel Proust (1877-1921).
The idea of history as a morally improving magic lantern show is one that many professional historians, myself included, would treat with extreme caution.
Early in the film, at a moment set in the Belle Epoque, young Marcel watches a magic lantern show about chivalric adventures.
The focus of the winter celebrations is the annual ice lantern show, which began in 1963 as an alternative to the lantern celebrations that traditionally have been held in China shortly after the lunar new year festivities.
One of the first 19th-century innovations was the phantasmagoria – a spooky magic lantern show in which images of the dead, projected onto smoke, loomed menacingly over the spectators.
Magic lantern shows influenced Melies' film and magic work.
There were folk songs, poems, lantern shows, essays by Charles Dickens and a play by Wilkie Collins.
| "Panoramas of the Moving Image: Mechanical Slides and Dissolving Views from Nineteenth-Century Magic Lantern Shows".
From chivalry and magic lantern shows to trench warfare and cinema: we've made the transition, and we live with it.
Situated just north of Oxford Circus, the building has been the site of many historical events, including early experiments with magic lantern shows, diving bells and electrification.
