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The antidote to television Professor Heard’s Peerless Magic Lantern Shows |
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Genuine Victorian and Edwardian magic lantern shows featuring vintage moving slides, comical stories, sights, frights and optical surprises . |
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“Professor” Mervyn Heard has performed in theatres, national and international museums, art galleries, at festivals histroic houses, heritage attractions and other venues, both formal and informal, throughout the UK, Europe,the USA, Australia and Japan Recent dates: December 2011Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Christmas Festival : The Foundling Museum, London : the new Museum of Liverpoolthe Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry : Sir John Soane Museum, London. Up and coming 2012Sat Feb 11 : Portsmouth Dickens FestivalTues Feb 14 : Little Shop of Horrors, Hackney |
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Go to Performances for full details of how to book one of the following themed showsPeerless Gothic/Halloween Christmas or the new magic lantern show for 2012 : Celebrating Dickens STOP PRESS: To watch the Professor in action in a new film made by the British Film Institute Dickens and the Magic Lantern follow this link
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More of Professor Heard on You Tube To watch a scene from a vintage 1990’s Discovery Channel TV series Mysteries of Magic featuring a brief introduction to phantasmagoria performances and an 18th seance, with projection on smoke, follow this linkwatch-v=4ZZx9Y3n5cU |
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“..19th century history has never been so fresh, so entertaining or quite so surprising...”.. The Guardian |
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