 At the main theatre, with 500 seats, lanternists would make good use of a battery of six large lanterns running on tracked tables to project the finely detailed images of extra large slides on the 648 square feet screen.The magic lantern was used to illustrate lectures, concerts, pantomimes and other forms of theatre.Popular magic lantern presentations included phantasmagoria, mechanical slides, Henry Langon Childe's dissolving views and his chromatrope.