The University of Hawaii at Manoa hosts an online collection of about 1,500 magic lantern slides created in the 1930s and distributed around the world to educate people about Japan. Here are a few.
Buddhist story [+]
Scary kite [+]
Sanitation campaign [+]
Sanitation campaign [+]
Sanitation campaign [+]
Sanitation campaign [+]
Buddhist story [+]
Story [+]
Buddhist story [+]
Buddhist story [+]
Hell [+]
Hell [+]
Hell [+]
Hell [+]
Hell [+]
Snake woman [+]
Earthquake [+]
Buddhist story [+]
[UHM Magic Lantern Slides Collection via ephemera assemblyman]
Karl
Awesome! 3 of my favourite things... Japan, supernatural creatures and the 1930s! Thanks for sharing...
[]Rozarin
Now that's how you do a tourist campaign! Love the snake woman :P
[]Chibaraki
The Snake Woman reminds me of a story of a pregnant maiden who said that her princely lover came nightly to woo her. Mother and Father implored her to tie a thin thread to her lover as he slept. In the morning, they found that the thread passed through a keyhole, big enough for a snake to pass through, and led to the local shrine of a snake deity. Cool, ne?
[]meeba
hmmmm the hell thing is cool
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