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Small publishers producing works on film and film-related subjects are a rare breed, and it is good to be able to report the return of The Projection Box, the enterprising Hastings business run by Stephen Herbert and Mo Heard. After “a period of slumber”, as their site puts it, they have returned with a new title, The Dickens Daguerreotype Portraits, by Herbert himself, and a new publishing strategy. They are using Blurb, the online print-on-demand service which is attracting a lot of interest from self-publishers and those just looking for alternative publishing options.

The first three titles to be available in this way are The Dickens Daguerreotype Portraits, a history of the very few daguerreotype portraits of Charles Dickens, and the single known daguerreotype portrait of his wife Catherine, well-timed for the bicentenary celebrations next year; the previously published The Kinora: motion pictures for the home, 1896-1914, by Barry Anthony, in a new extended version which includes a reprint of the Bond’s Ltd. 1911 Catalogue of Living Pictures that your may show in your own home; and also previously published, a facsimile of 1890 account of a famous Victorian optical illusion, The True History of the Ghost by ‘Professor’ John Henry Pepper, with an introduction by Mervyn Heard.

Other titles from The Projection Box back catalogue will be made available in this way in due course. These can still be ordered direct from The Projection Box in the traditional away, along with their CD publications and The Magic Lantern Society (UK) titles. The full list is (with prices):

• Eadweard Muybridge: the Kingston Museum Bequest, eds. Ann McCormack and Stephen Herbert
  GB Pounds: 30.00 p&p 4.50
  US dollars: 48.00, shipping US dollars 19.00
• The Encyclopaedia of the Magic Lantern, eds: Richard Crangle, Stephen Herbert, David Robinson
  GB Pounds: 45.00 p&p 9.50
  US dollars: 70.00, shipping US dollars 40.00
• For Ladies Only? Eve’s Film Review: Pathe Cinemagazine 1921-33, by Jenny Hammerton
  GB Pounds: 9.00 p&p 2.50
  US dollars: 14.00, shipping US dollars 10.00
• From Frontiersman to Film-maker. The Biography of Film Pioneer Birt Acres, by Alan Birt Acres
  [details of CD-ROM to follow]
• The Illustrated Bamforth Slide Catalogue – DVD-ROM
  GB Pounds: 25.00 p&p 1.50
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• The Incomparable Testot! Selections from a 19th Century Magician’s Paragraph Boo – Introduced by Edwin A. Dawes
  GB Pounds: 9.00 p&p 2.00
  US dollars: 14.00, shipping US dollars 6.00
• Industry, Liberty and a Vision: Wordsworth Donisthorpe’s Kinesigraph, by Stephen Herbert
  GB Pounds: 25.00 p&p 1.50
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• The Lantern Image: Supplement No. 1, compiled by David Robinson
  GB Pounds: 4.00 p&p 2.50
  US dollars: 7.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• New Magic Lantern Journal – Volume 6
  GB Pounds: 25.00 p&p 1.50
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• New Magic Lantern Journal – Volume 7
  GB Pounds: 25.00 p&p 1.50
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• Phantasmagoria: the secret life of the magic lantern, by Mervyn Heard
  GB Pounds: 25.00 p&p 4.50
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• Realms of Light: Uses and Perceptions of the Magic Lantern from the 17th to the 21st Century, edited by Richard Crangle, Mervyn Heard and Ine van Dooren
  GB Pounds: 35.00 p&p 9.50
  US dollars: 62.00, shipping US dollars 28.00
• Servants of Light, ed. Richard Franklin and Stephen Herbert
  GB Pounds: 20.00 p&p 3.50
  US dollars: 30.00, shipping US dollars 16.00
• Theodore Brown’s Magic Pictures: the art and inventions of a multi-media pioneer, by Stephen Herbert
  GB Pounds: 25.00 p&p 1.50
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• The Titanic and Silent Cinema, by Stephen Bottomore
  GB Pounds: 11.00 p&p 3.00
  US dollars: 18.00, shipping US dollars 10.00
• Victorian Film Catalogues, ed. Stephen Herbert
  GB Pounds: 5.00 p&p 2.00
  US dollars: 8.00, shipping US dollars 6.00
• When the Movies Began: a chronology of the world’s first film shows, by Stephen Herbert
  GB Pounds: 3.00 p&p 1.00
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00
• A Yank in Britain: The Lost Memoirs of Charles Urban, Film Pioneer, ed. by Luke McKernan
  GB Pounds: 25.00 p&p 1.50
  US dollars: 40.00, shipping US dollars 7.00

Further details of all titles are available on The Projection Box website. And welcome back.