Magic lantern slide: Roast meat attacks a man

A magic lantern slipping slide showing a man being attacked by his roast dinner, made by an unknown artist in 1870. The first part of the slide shows the man about to begin eating the animal on his plate, fork in hand.

A slipping (or slipper) slide is designed to give movement to a still drawing to reveal something which was previously hidden. There are two main types of slipping slide, single and double. With the single slide, the action is produced by sliding one glass in front of another. - two glasses are mounted in a wooden frame, one of which is fixed and the other moves across it. The movable glass is called the slipping glass and can be moved usually into two final positions to mask off then reveal part of the image.