magic lantern

基本解释

Though he adored film, and had done so ever since he had swapped half his tin soldiers for his big brother's magic lantern, film-making made him “bleed too much”.
尽管他热爱电影，小时候就曾用自己一半的锡兵跟自己的哥哥交换魔灯，但电影让他“留了太多的血”。
According to this theory, the image was made with the aid of a magic lantern, a simple projecting device, or by means of a camera obscura and light-sensitive silver compounds applied to the cloth.
依照这个理论，这个图像是借助于早期放映机的帮助，一种简单的突出设备，或者利用暗箱和光敏感镀银混合物运用于布料上面。
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen.
而似乎神奇的灯失去了勇气就连银幕的格调也显得懒。

He had sold engine-parts, prefabricated houses, magic-lantern projectors, socks.
ECONOMIST: Momofuku Ando

an early type of projector, a machine that shines a light through a painted or photographic image on a glass sheet to produce a larger image