Fun Things From My Past

I don't think I ever had a toy I enjoyed more than the Magnajector.  It was a simple opaque projector made of rather attractive Bakelite.  Inside was a light bulb and a mirror.  You plugged in your Magnajector and whatever you put it on top of was projected on the wall.

Somewhere around age nine, I used mine to make a series of cartoons starring a dog character I named Daniel Bone.  Actually, "cartoons" is way overstating things since even crude animation was not possible.  They were more like unlettered comic books projected one panel at a time, with me doing the voices live for whatever friends or parents I could drag into a dark room.  Later, I learned I could trace drawings with it, and a friend of mine named Carl invented a usage for his that I'll divulge in a moment.  But I recently came across a picture of a Magnajector and couldn't resist sharing it with you.