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To start, here's a link to a terrific page on making a back drop.Educational Theatre Association - rehearsal hall's page on drop making. If you mix this with buying damaged goods from a supplier, you will save a bunch of money.
After Elias Howe invented the first American-Patented sewing
machine (in 1846) and Isaac Singer built the first commercially successful
sewing machine (in the 1850s), the time-consuming and laborious task of sewing
garments became faster and easier. High quality clothing could be produced
quickly and at minimal expense. Therefore, the first machines were used in
garment factories and were a key element of the industrial revolution.
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Written by Scott Parker
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What does it take to be a rigger? Attention to SAFETY! Most Rigging involves hanging things over other people. If something goes wrong, somebody can get hurt. Not good.
Riggers need to know the proper methods of securing items like cable, aka wire rope, to other objects without the possibility of slipping. Remember this, your rigging is only as strong as the weakest link. In other words, if you use cable that can hold a thousand pounds and a piece of chain that is rated for 500 pounds, then the whole thing can only hold 500 pounds.
There is so much about rigging that could get us in trouble, it would be irresponsible of me to skim over it. So, until we have enough material here to give you a full picture, I recommend visiting these sites...
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Written by Michael Powers
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Techie's Corner Welcome once again
to The Techie’s Corner. This months topic is the third and last chapter
about "Water on Stage". Chapter One was about rain, Two was about sinks
and this chapter is about POOLS, STREAMS AND WATERFALLS. If you haven’t
read the first two articles, they are available in the back issues
section. Unfortunately the archives can not store bit map images so the
illustrations will be missing. If any reader would like to see the
illustrations, please contact me by e-mail (
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), let me
know which article you are interested in, and I will be glad to send
the illustrations. Streams, pools and waterfalls still have the same
concerns of supply, delivery, storage, conditioning etc. as sinks and
rain. For a complete description of these, see the December ‘98 issue
of TRE, "Rain On Stage". I would like to reiterate that this discussion
is intended for the live stage, not theme parks or the mega budgets of
Las Vegas. Pools are unique in that after the water gets to the stage,
it just sits there. No pumps or barrels or pressure vessels. The effect
itself is the storage vessel. Unless the actors jump in or splash
about, the pool itself is the "recovery" and "control" mechanism. If
there is a great deal of splashing then you have to deal with how the
water affects the floor or "ground" around the pool, where it goes if
it is enough to drain away, how quickly the area will dry on its own,
the time interval between performances.
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Written by Michael Powers
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Water can be a great tool to add realism to the stage. We will be adding more water effects as they become available. We are thankful to Michael Powers for several articles on the wet stuff. Click on the links to the left and see how to stay dry.
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Written by Michael Powers
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Well, here we are again at the
Techie’s Corner. This month, we will wind up our section on methods of
creating fake fire for the stage with a brief discussion on torches,
candles and lanterns.
Torches have been around, well, forever. In
fact torches have been around longer than we have. Somewhere in the far
distant past, one of our proto human ancestors picked up a burning
branch from a wildfire and lit his way down the dark path to the
future. The basic torch has changed very little since then. However,
man, never satisfied with the basic model of anything, tried many
variations and “improvements” along the way.
The first
improvement was probably when some one discovered that a large pine
knot full of hardened sap would burn longer than a plain branch. After
that it would have been an easy step to experiment with other methods
of making torches last longer. One early method was to wrap the head
of the torch in a loose weave of plant fibers and then soak that in
animal fat.
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