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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 2) Wayne Keyser Master Film Handler Posts: 272 From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 04-12-2005 12:12 AM                     Phil - WHERE DID YOU PHOTOGRAPH THAT? Unless I am mistaken (or unless someone has built another) that is one of Kenneth Strickfaden's wonderful movie "mad lab" props. He rented them out of his garage to pictures from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN all the way up to YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, but they've been little seen since he died in 1984. What can you tell us? (Correct me if I'm wrong - it's a semi-spherical mirror … Strickfaden was always cobbling these things together from surplus-store stuff … and the arcs just go from the edge of the opaque center disc straight to the inside surface of the mirror, and it has to be shot exactly straight-on to get the effect) [ 04-12-2005, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Keyser ]  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-12-2005 09:02 AM                      |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-12-2005 05:48 PM                      |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-12-2005 08:27 PM                  Actually Wayne, that's a flat-glass disc capacitor that the HV exceeded it's insulating distance and therefore arced to (and around) the edges of the glass. (Although Ken's had a metal ring around the circumference attached to the opposite pole). Being an HV nut, I am on many HV/Tesla websites and built a few devices myself. That pic is NOT from any of Strickfaden's original electrical equipment. He had a name for each of his devices, but I have forgotten them. I first met Ken when I worked at Panavision and helped him to restore his old electric devices for use in "Young Frankenstein". They were all dusty and dirty and in disrepair. They were stored in his garage and needed much work to be operational again. Mel Brooks was intent in using the original "Frankenstein" equipment for his comedy take-off. Since I loved that kinda stuff, I volunteered. Years later, there was a special tribute to Ken and his electrical devices at (I think...again I forgot. They say memory is the 2nd thing to go...) the Academy Theatre here in Hollywood. They showed (sections of) "Young Frankenstein" and the original "Frankenstein" followed by a live demo by Ken of his equipment. Below is a pic of me (in the light-colored shirt) and my son (wearing "Vans" ) in the front row just behind the rope for the demo. It was cool and so was he.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-12-2005 08:58 PM                        You were involved in the production of Young Frankenstein? Very cool!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-12-2005 09:17 PM                  Working on many big-time films as a behind-the-scenes-flunkie for ABC, Panavision, AstroVision, Iwerks, etc... "I got no screen credit"... since it was not "allowed" by the company. I was there as a corporate consultant and advisor. But, I really did have a lot of fun! I was thinking someday, I'll make a list of all the films I worked on...  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2005 03:33 AM                        Besides their looking so cool, face it, they're art, that's why they were used in the movies, the thing I've always liked about them is that they're almost all actually doing something functional. The sparky things were rotary & static spark gaps actually hooked up to & part of the big induction coils, etc. It fits in perfectly with the set dressing of stuff that is actually supposed to be doing something. I don't know if it was Strickfaden's, but one of my favorites is in Bride of Frankenstein: they're monitoring a disembodied heart on a huge meter that's straight off the shelf. You can see the manufacturer's name on it. I never liked the little neon spiral that whirled around. It seemed just silly.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2005 05:15 AM                     Phil, Way cool! When you get the list made up be sure to post it over at IMDB.com. You should get some sort of recognition after all.... and you might get more calls...... Mark  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-13-2005 02:38 PM                    My brand new (and so far, first and only) nephew, Charles Paul O'Melia, II.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-13-2005 03:48 PM                        My father's cousin, Cleveland Indians catcher Frank Pytlak, on the mound with Baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher Bob Feller (circa 1938): And catching as Joe Dimaggio bats:  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-13-2005 05:14 PM                        I can see the resemblence... honestly! The Pytlak family must have strong genes that override the others that are introduced, making everyone look similar. That bottom picture must have been taken before stadiums were invented.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2005 05:41 PM                        Nice pictures, John!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-13-2005 05:50 PM                  Yeah, John. I agree with Scott. That pic with Dimaggio is really priceless. Very cool! William: The EFX that bug the heck outta me is the "do-nothing" lights as in that scanning/scintillating board in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" or the pulsating/pegging milliamp meter array. How stupit! Since I like neon... even if cheesy...I like it! Mark: No thanks.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2005 07:10 PM                     quote: My father's cousin, Cleveland Indians catcher Frank Pytlak, on the mound with Baseball Hall-of-Fame pitcher Bob Feller (circa 1938): John, You definately have his chin structure!! _______________ quote: Phil Hill Mark: No thanks. Phil, Gee, why not ? Nothing wrong with doing that..... we'd all love to know what films you've worked on...... or you could list em here too..... I find it interesting to know who from this site worked on what movie and so on. Mark  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-13-2005 07:43 PM                  Mark, That was then, this is now. All that and a buck 50 would buy me a good cup of coffee. I really have no interest in getting back in the biz. I'd much rather loaf and do what "I" want to do. I'm now officially a "Slacker" and enjoying it! The only "value" to all of that past stuff would be anecdotal...as in my above post. Or things like during the filming of "Jaws" when a Panaflex camera, lens, head, tripod, etc fell into the ocean...it was in shallow water and recovered...but still really funny at that time. Those types of things of which there are many. I always tried to get some "souvenir" from most all the pics I was involved with, no matter how small the part. I still have my "Lifeclock" hand crystal from "Logan's Run" ...and YES! It blinked RED a long, LONG time ago!  |  IP: Logged

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