Stephen Herbert

Background

Stephen Herbert was born on December 20, 1951 in London, United Kingdom, in the family of Albert Herbert and Betty (Hinton) Come.

Education

In 1980 Stephen received Audio-Visual Technical Qualification at South Thames College.

Career

Stephen is a consultant working in museum research, technical development, display, and ergonomics. He specializes in research concerning Early Cinema and Victorian optical entertainments, and also dabble in Early Television.

With partner Mo Heard, he set up a small publishing partnership The Projection Box in 1994, initially to publish small monographs on pre-cinema, optical toys, and early film. In recent years they have published more substantial books by specialists in the field. His own work has also been published by others including Routledge, the British Film Institute, and The Magic Lantern Society.

Stephen tries to manage several websites: The Projection Box, The Compleat Muybridge, and The Wheel of Life, and in theory help Luke McKernan keep their Who's Who of Victorian Cinema website up-to-date. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Kingson University, London.

Achievements

• Stephen is famous for his works Magic Images and Who's Who of Victorian Cinema.

Works

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• book

  • Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey (Centenary of Cinema)

    (Cinema arrived in 1895 and had reached almost every corne...)

    1996
  • Magic Images: The Art of Hand-Painted & Photographic Lantern Slides 1990

Membership

• National Stereoscopic Association

• Projected Picture Trust

• Magic Lantern Society

Interests

• reading, riting, and researching

Connections

Stephen got married in 1976, but divorced in 1995. He has a daughter Claire.

Father:

Albert Herbert

Mother:

Betty (Hinton) Come

Daughter:

Claire