Eric gave a magic lantern talk to second year Fine Arts students at Nottingham Trent University in March 2011. We will try to recreate some of the animations. This work is still in progress.
This "Wheel of Life" slide represents the first movement generated by a changing image relying on persistence of vision.
The text round the edge of the disc reads "Copied from the Original with permission of the London Stereoscopic Company". This company sold many copies of a Zoetrope version of this before the magic lantern slide version. This slide is said to be "The most important slide in any major magic lantern collection" and is vary rare.
The book "Television: an international history of the formative years" by R. W. Burns, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Science Museum (Great Britain) gives the date as 1850; I would think a little later.

Note: This slide may take time to download fully before the animation starts. Be patient!

This disc, hiding all but a narrow slot of the disc image, rotates rapidly, say several times a second.	This glass painted disc rotates at one thirteenth of the speed of the "slot disc". Each sector of one thirteenth of the circumference represents the next stage of the animation. Each time the slot returns to a given position, this dis has rotates to the next stage of the action.