Maker
PICTURE SHOW: (top) The Lodge Lantern Vertical
Rotary Carousel; (bottom) various 20th-century
coming attraction slides. Wings (bottom row, third
from left) was the first winner of the Academy Award
“Walt Disney began working for the Kansas City
Slide Company as an illustrator for magic lantern
slides,” Judson adds. “That’s how he got his start.
Of course, everybody knows how he went on from
there to California where he created cels that would
become an animated motion picture. All of this stuff
began with the magic lantern.”
for Best Picture; (opposite) the children’s magic lantern
exhibit includes 19th-century handpainted slides in
wood frames.
» Magic Lantern Castle Museum:
magiclanterns.org
A complete video and transcript of this interview
are available at
makezine.com/16/lantern.
Dale Dougherty is editor and publisher of MAKE.
Photography by Michael Thad Carter
32 Make: Volume
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