Media Archaeology
Magic Lantern Demonstrations
Featuring 19th Century and early 20th century lantern slides and projectors; gearwork mechanical lantern slides (including astronomical and chromatropes); animated slip-slides; dissolving views; narrative slide sets; fraternal slides (Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythias).
Magic lantern ephemera.
Phantasmagoria presentation, with reproduciton 18th century-style lantern slides.
New York Times, August 22, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/arts/design/summer-of-magic-new-york-historical-society.html
Highland Current, February 16, 2019
https://highlandscurrent.org/2019/02/16/5-questions-joel-schlemowitz/
Joel Schlemowitz and Dawn Elliott photographed by Rose Callahan
Presentations have taken place at:
- Boscobel House and Gardens Museum, Garrison NY
- NYU Cinema Studies, New York NY
- Locust Lawn Historic House Museum, Gardiner NY
- New-York Historical Society, New York NY
- The Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn NY
Victrola DJ
Featuring 1920s portable Victrola; 1910s horn Vic 1; Edison Standard Cylinder Player.
Phonograph ephemera.
78 records: 1920s jazz and dance bands; WW1-related music; opera (Caruso, et al); 1910s and 1920s popular music; 1920s prohibition-related songs.
Joel Schlemowitz and Dawn Elliott playing original WWI-era records on a portable Victrola
and Edison cylinder player at Historic Cherry Hill, Albany NY, photographed by Michael Joyce
Presentations have taken place at:
- Historic Cherry Hill, Albany NY
- Museum Village, Monroe NY
- Schuyler Mansion, Albany NY
Inquiries: email joel@joelschlemowitz.com