Effect
The Table Frames
Harlan Tarbell · The Tarbell Course, 1926
- Time
- 14 min read + 10 min practice
- Materials
- In the library
- Prerequisites
- None
Take care. Working with these objects and effects is inherently dangerous; anyone who attempts them does so at their own risk. Anybody under 18 is advised to undertake them only with a parent's permission and supervision.
You will need two of these to support the box so at proper moment when box is sawed you can pull frames apart, each bearing a half of the box.
shows the frame. Each leg has a castor on bottom. In emergency four saw horses can be used.
Publicity If you do not care to carry a saw with you, it might be possible to have a local hardware store cooperate with you to use one of their saws and then credit them accordingly. You can say in your publicity that saw is furnished by so-and-so.
You could even submit blueprints or sketches to a department or hardware store and have them build box and frames, supply the rope and saw for the publicity that you would give them. Perhaps you could have them exhibit the box and saw in their window with a card announcing that on such and such a date, at such and such a place, you were going to saw a lady in half and this store would furnish the material to do it with.
This plan of publicity is suitable for any city or town, large or small, that is large enough to support your show. But always try to pick out the most prominent dealer.
How it is done
The method, 6 drawings and all it needs, inside the library.
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