A new hybrid type of performance created by Adolf Radok, the director of the newly founded eponymous company Josef Svoboda, Emil Radok and Milos Forman. As opposed to Polyekran, Laterna Magica featured performers . The show was also created for the 1958 world fair (Expo) in Brussels.

In addition to the two slide- and three film projectors used to realise this project, a device was utilized to deflect a projector beam to a desired location (tbc) This could be the first moving mirror projection. All was syncronised with eletronic tape.