Response to Harvey's 777

After some searching, we found a few cases of old big slow burn flashbulbs. We mounted a rig of 4 bulbs each into modified 24" and larger smith victor 1500 watt incondecent flood reflectors and fired them buy radio to Ascor 600 strobe units that fired photocells at the flashbulb units using car batteries as a power source. We had to light the Tower at 43rd St. evenly. It took weeks of planning and testing and a large number of people, and worked precisely as planned. The entire project ran as a 8 page ad for Allied Chemical in Life Magazine. I was hired because they wanted it to appear to be similar to Life editorial pages, and since I already worked for Life I got the job.

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