For Immediate Release

    Contact: Todd Oberman  
             Lantern Corporation
             63 Ridgemoor Drive
             Clayton, MO 63105
Phone & Fax: (314) 725-6125   
 Compuserve: 73650,375  
   Internet: rhusar@mecf.wustl.edu

Lantern Corporation Announces AVI Support for MOVIE Upgrade


CLAYTON, MO - November 11, 1993 - Lantern Corporation today announced that 
the next version of its MOVIE Animation Utility for Windows(tm) will support 
the creation and playback of AVI files.  MOVIE is a Windows 3.1 utility which 
creates animations by automatically capturing screen images and playing back 
the images to produce motion.  MOVIE requires no expensive video hardware.  
Version 4.1 of the MOVE Animation Utility and the MOVIE Development Kit are 
scheduled for a release in the first quarter of 1994.  With the planned 
update, people can use their own drawing and charting applications to create 
animations in an industry standard format.

Currently, MOVIE 4.0 features a device independent file format which can 
handle palettes of 256 or more colors as well as a royalty-free MOVIE Player 
which allows people to distribute their animations to others.  The MOVIE 
Development Kit provides the capability to embed movies in Windows Help 
files as well as Multimedia Viewer files.  Lantern's products enable WinHelp 
files to become the medium of electronic reports, newsletters and 
demonstrations.  The Development Kit also provides an open API to the 
MOVIE DLL engine which allows developers to create their own animation 
applications with a simple frame based API.

MOVIE can be combined with any drawing, painting and charting software to 
produce animated presentations.  In WinHelp files, simple animations showing 
someone how to accomplish a task are an effective tool for learning and 
training.  MOVIE can be combined with 3-D CAD and surface modeling software 
to produce fly overs and architectural walk throughs.  It can be combined 
with GIS mapping systems to animate economic, demographic or meteorological 
data through time.

About the Publisher

Lantern Corporation is a software development company located in St. Louis, 
Missouri.  Believing that data dissemination should be as uninhibited as 
possible, Lantern's primarily focuses on providing information delivery 
systems within the Microsoft Windows environment.  Lantern is uniting the 
analytical and presentation needs of today's users.  Lantern's other major 
product is Voyager, a data base browser for related geographic and time data.  
In Voyager, data are simultaneously displayed on map, time, variable and 
scatter views.  Voyager has applications in demographic, economic, marketing 
and environmental analysis.


MOVIE 4.1 Animation Utility Available:  First Quarter 1994