Dissolving Views

This lantern is called a "biunial" (two in one) it was a precision instrument used to create startling special effects on the screen. With such an apparatus a slide could be made to dissolve into another creating startling effects (e.g. day becoming night etc). Even more complex results could be achieved with a "triunial" ( three in one lantern)

Summer                                   Winter

Above a matching pair of dissolving view effect slides