Halloween: Magic Lanterns, Part 2—INTERVIEW with Gale Wollenberg
Gale Wollenberg is pretty handy in a machine shop. So handy, in fact, that he decided to build his own magic lantern. His incredible accomplishments are well-known in magic lantern circles. Mr. Wollenberg shares his time with us now to tell us how he got interested in the whole business...
My interest in magic lanterns started after stumbling on to several magic lantern Web sites when looking for magician Web sites in the early years of this new century. As a teenager in the 1960s, I remember reading a comic book that told of an old magician who hired a lazy peasant (this depicted a medieval time period) to run his candle fired projection lantern. So I made all the mental connections of how the magic lantern had been used through about 300 years of it's history. I am a member of the Magic Lantern Society of the U.S. and Canada and have contributed one or two articles to the European Magic Lantern Society's newsletter.
My interest in magic lanterns started after stumbling on to several magic lantern Web sites when looking for magician Web sites in the early years of this new century. As a teenager in the 1960s, I remember reading a comic book that told of an old magician who hired a lazy peasant (this depicted a medieval time period) to run his candle fired projection lantern. So I made all the mental connections of how the magic lantern had been used through about 300 years of it's history. I am a member of the Magic Lantern Society of the U.S. and Canada and have contributed one or two articles to the European Magic Lantern Society's newsletter.
