The Inky spotlight and a snoot
Toronto. Issue 14-2 has a wealth of interesting stories by the editor. This a story about a small incandescent spot light with attachable accessory snoots to create a small circle of illumination.
I used a variation of a line from a WW1 song as a title. I picked up a similar spot light years ago at a PHSC fair. The light by Kliegl Brothers has the snoot built in.
Ev tells a hilarious story of acquiring an Inky and snoots for his new studio. The tale begins, “The very thought of God admitting that you have more information than He is mind-boggling, to say the least. This small-scale working model provided me with valuable experimental data if that event should occur, and a moment so mirthful that I don’t care if it never does.
“After months of planning in the old “third floor studio” at Eaton’s [Toronto Store], the “new” commercial studio had just been opened. The walls were new, the paint was new, we had some new lighting equipment and I was very proud of this accomplishment, achieved with so much effort and so few dollars.
“Some things were necessarily inherited from the “old” studio; equipment and our Supervisor.”
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