[SML] Snow in the UK?

[Jeff Forbes]

On Oct 3, 2014, at 6:36 AM, stagecraft-request at theatrical.net wrote:

> I'm going nuts trying to remember the term for the antique device that 
> did just that, only on a vertical axis - an opaque cylinder pierced with 
> pattners that hung over a base holding a candle (or later, lightbulb); 
> the rising heat rotated the cylinder to cast a moving pattern of light 
> and shadow on the walls (or sometimes on a translucent, fixed outer 
> cylinder. I vaguely recall having a pint-sized bedroom lamp based on the 
> principle when I was a kid.
> 
> My brain is coming up with "magic lantern," but that's an entirely 
> different thing. Any of the other, um, elders in the group know what I'm 
> talking about?
> 
> -- 
> Pat Kight
> kightp at peak.org

I actually have one of those, with fishys and things on it, but damned if I can remember what it's called. You can actually still buy them at certain shops, although I haven't spotted one for awhile so maybe their period of retro cool faded out.

J