BOOK AND COMPLETE OUTFIT FOR SHADOW PICTURES,
PANTOMIMES, ENTERTAINMENTS, Etc., Etc.
Shadow Making has been a very popular amusement for several centuries. There is a great deal of fun and instruction in it, and its long life is due to the fact that it has always been a source of keen delight to grown people as well as to children.
In getting material together for this little book, the author has been greatly aided by English, French and American authors, some of whom are professional shadowists. It has been the author's special effort to get the subject and apparatus into a practical, cheap form for boys and girls.
THE OUTFIT contains everything necessary for all ordinary shadow pictures, shadow entertainments, shadow plays, etc. The following articles are included:
One book of Instructions called "Fun with Shadows"; 1 Shadow Screen; 2 Sheets of Tracing Paper; 1 Coil of Wire for Movable Figures; 1 Cardboard Frame for Circular Screen; 1 Cardboard House for Stage Scenery; 1 Jointed Wire Fish-pole and Line; 2 Bent Wire Scenery Holders; 4 Clamps for Screen; 1 Wire Figure Support; 1 Wire for Oar; 2 Spring Wire Table Clamps; 1 Wire Candlestick Holder; 5 Cardboard Plates containing the following printed figures that should be cut out with shears: 12 Character Hats; 1 Boat; 1 Oar-blade; 1 Fish; 1 Candlestick; 1 Cardboard Plate containing printed parts for making movable figures.
CONTENTS OF BOOK: One Hundred Illustrations and Diagrams, including Ten Full-page Book Plates, together with Six Full-page Plates on Cardboard.
Chapter I. Introduction.—II. General Instructions.—III. Hand Shadows of Animals.—IV. Hand Shadows of Heads, Character Faces, etc.—V. Moving Shadow Figures and How to Make Them.—VI. Shadow Pantomimes.—VII. Miscellaneous Shadows.
The Book and Complete Outfit will be sent, POST-PAID,
upon receipt of 35 cents, by
THOMAS M. ST. JOHN, 407 West 51st St., New York City.
Fun With Electricity.
BOOK AND COMPLETE OUTFIT FOR SIXTY
EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY. . . .