The Magic Lantern – The cinema club for children

The Magic Lantern – The cinema club for children

The Magic Lantern is an international cinema club for children aged 6 to 12. Its purpose is to help young audiences to discover the pleasure of cinema …at the cinema. Once a month, club members are invited to attend an age appropriate, quality film in a real cinema. Exclusively for children (without their parents) but [...]

The Magic Lantern on the Internet

The Magic Lantern on the Internet

In tandem with their activities in the cinema theatres and in accordance with its objectives for heightened visual media literacy, The Magic Lantern develops numerous projects and activities notably on the Internet, in schools and for television. There are many websites pertaining to cinema on the Internet. However, sites dedicated to visual media literacy and [...]

The Magic Lantern – Visual media literacy

The Magic Lantern – Visual media literacy

The Magic Lantern is an international cinema club for children aged 6 to 12. This unique club has been in existence for nearly twenty years. Its purpose: to help young audiences to discover the pleasure of cinema and to provide them with tools to understand the images they are seeing, using an age-appropriate concept. A [...]

The Magic Lantern – A magic formula

The Magic Lantern – A magic formula

Several days before each session, all children club members receive a small illustrated magazine in the mail, presenting the film to be shown. Reading the magazine helps the children to prepare for the film and to become familiar with cinematographic terms. The day of the film showing two presenters greet the children at the cinema [...]

The Magic Lantern – Films to grow up with

The Magic Lantern – Films to grow up with

At The Magic Lantern, children are considered as real spectators: demanding, critical yet always capable of being amazed. Having prepared for the film screening by reading the magazine as well as with the short preamble preceding each film showing, children are able to accept and appreciate even difficult works such as films by Pierre Etaix [...]


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The Magic Lantern – The cinema club for children

The Magic Lantern – The cinema club for children

The Magic Lantern is an international cinema club for children aged 6 to 12. Its purpose is to help young audiences to discover the pleasure of cinema …at the cinema. Once a month, club members are invited to attend an age appropriate, quality film in a real cinema. Exclusively for children (without their parents) but [...]

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Cine-Bazar

The Cat Who Wanted to Make a Movie

The Cat Who Wanted to Make a Movie

The Internet series The Cat Who Wanted to Make a Movie is an amusing and educative initiation in filmmaking. It takes you through the entire process from the initial idea, right up to its release in the cinema. Through it’s interactive concept, this site introduces children to the Internet tool using confidence-building techniques. It emphasizes [...]

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News

Radio: The Magic Lantern in Abu Dhabi

Radio: The Magic Lantern in Abu Dhabi

Listen to the interview about The Magic Lantern on Abu Dhabi Classic FM! Visit the website of The Magic Lantern in the United Arab Emirates: click here!

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Special events

The Magic Lantern at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival

The Magic Lantern at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival

The Magic Lantern Film Club for Children at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2011 Saturday, 22 October 2011, 4 pm On the occasion of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF), The Magic Lantern is going to present a film session for children aged 6 to 12 at the VOX Cinemas, Marina Mall, Abu Dhabi. In [...]

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Recent Articles

The Cat Who Wanted to Make a Movie

The Cat Who Wanted to Make a Movie

The Internet series The Cat Who Wanted to Make a Movie is an amusing and educative initiation in filmmaking. It takes you through the entire process from the initial idea, right up to its release in the cinema. Through it’s interactive concept, this site introduces children to the Internet tool using confidence-building techniques. It emphasizes [...]

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Play cinema at the CINE-BAZAR portal

Play cinema at the CINE-BAZAR portal

The CINE-BAZAR is a portal conceived by The Magic Lantern for young audiences. It presents a bundle of sites available to children and parents: The Internet series The Cat Who Wanted to Make a Movie is an amusing and educative initiation in filmmaking. It takes you through the entire process from the initial idea, right [...]

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We’ll all be turning film critics

We’ll all be turning film critics

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The Magic Lantern introduces itself…

The Magic Lantern introduces itself…

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Children to learn magic of movies

Children to learn magic of movies

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Season announced

Season announced

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