Stephen and Mo Heard started The Projection Box in 1996 to provide small monographs on pre-cinema and early film subjects. The books fulfilled a need by introducing new research by historians, and the business thrived for many years.
The Projection Box is no longer in operation. Some of the titles are still available via the Magic Lantern Society website.
- The Thaumatrope by John Barnes
- When the Movies Began by Stephen Herbert
- The Titanic and Silent Cinema by Stephen Bottomore
- Ottomar Anschütz and his Electrical Wonder by Deac Rossell
- Phantasmagoria by Mervyn Heard
- The Kinora by Barry Anthony
- The Kinora Library
- Randall Williams by Vanessa Toulmin
- Eadweard Muybridge: the Kingston Museum Bequest by Stephen Herbert
- Industry, Liberty and a Vision: Wordsworth Donisthorpe’s Kinesigraph by Stephen Herbert
- Theodore Brown’s Magic Pictures: The Art and Inventions of a Multi-Media Pioneer by Stephen Herbert
- For Ladies Only: Eve’s Film Review by Jenny Hammerton
- The True History of Pepper’s Ghost. Introduction by Mervyn Heard
- Victorian Film Catalogues
- The Incomparable Testot
- A Yank in Britain: The Lost Memoirs of Charles Urban, Film Pioneer by Luke McKernan
The Projection Box also produced optical paper toys: The Ghost! The Ghost! and sets of thaumatropes.
Stephen Herbert 