Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:59:27 EDT
Subject: Re: PUPT: Flashes and flashers


<< flashpots with a candle in the middle and something similar to 
dragon breath (than no one is willing to disclose the source of) that they 
pipe in through a little hose or surgical tube, getting a beautiful big flash 
in the middle of the stage. >>

I wonder, Vit,  if this "Dragon breath"  could be powdered rosin?  In one of 
the Puppetry Yearbooks of Paul McP., there is a woodcut of a device similar 
to that which you described, with a brief article mentioning rosin.  

It may be the same stuff ballet dancers use(d) on their toeshoe points. It 
came in rock form and was crushed into a box offstage for the dancers. 

Fred Thompson



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