10 Cirkut The Clown Motel, Tonopah

[jimgalli]

So I've been working on an old #10 that came to me in parts. Reasonably complete but no lens, no tripod legs and the governor was broken and it was all in pieces.

Thanks to Charley Ewen I was able to put the governor back together and yesterday in the wind and the cold I went looking for something to test it on.



Everybody loves the Clown Motel. Next to the old Tonopah grave yard and supposedly haunted as if the coulrophobia wasn't bad enough. It's for sale if anyone is looking for a good business opportunity. The small image is the link to a larger file if you've any interest. Love what the Cirkut does to a moving truck and cars on Hwy 95

The #10 can be had also.

 

[chip j]

Nice picture!

 

[mshchem]

So I've been working on an old #10 that came to me in parts. Reasonably complete but no lens, no tripod legs and the governor was broken and it was all in pieces.

Thanks to Charley Ewen I was able to put the governor back together and yesterday in the wind and the cold I went looking for something to test it on.



Everybody loves the Clown Motel. Next to the old Tonopah grave yard and supposedly haunted as if the coulrophobia wasn't bad enough. It's for sale if anyone is looking for a good business opportunity. The small image is the link to a larger file if you've any interest. Love what the Cirkut does to a moving truck and cars on Hwy 95

The #10 can be had also.

I love the "scrunched up" truck on the road. What amazing technology, this is what I wish some billionaire would do. Bring back Cirkut cameras, film, print frames and contact paper.

 

[frobozz]

Nice! Need to finish my darkroom, first step on the long road to finally putting mine through its paces (and yet I may have to move soon, delaying that even further!)

Duncan

 

[wiltw]

How come some hotel in an insignificant town is warranting so much attention, when there is Area 51 only 30 miles away?!

 

[jimgalli]

How come some hotel in an insignificant town is warranting so much attention, when there is Area 51 only 30 miles away?!

Well, Area 51 is just less than 97 miles as the raven flies, not 30, much more by highway, and also you can see the spooks at the "Clown" but the LGM's are off limits at the other place.

 

[Eric Rose]

Nice to see you posting images Jim.

 

[jimgalli]

Thanks Eric!

 

[wiltw]

Well, Area 51 is just less than 97 miles as the raven flies, not 30, much more by highway, and also you can see the spooks at the "Clown" but the LGM's are off limits at the other place.

Oops, I confused the Tonopah Test Range, not Area 51. Good thing I don't go in the desert and get lost!

 

[wyofilm]

What are the dimensions of the negative?

 

[jimgalli]

What are the dimensions of the negative?

It is 9.5 X 39 inches.

 

[wyofilm]

It is 9.5 X 39 inches.

Wow ... amazing.

 

[John51]

I remember stories about school photographs taken with that or a similar camera. All the students would be lined up and some wag at the start would duck down and run to the other end in time to be photographed again.

 

[jimgalli]

I remember stories about school photographs taken with that or a similar camera. All the students would be lined up and some wag at the start would duck down and run to the other end in time to be photographed again.

Like this one I did for the kids when my niece was a junior in 2014

You can see the same kid with the same Tshirt at both ends. He has to run behind the camera and get back to the other end of the line before the camera gets there. That's called a "pizza run". For that image I took a piece of rope and can of white spray paint and tied the rope off at the camera location and walked a perimeter circle where the kids would stand and sprayed a white line. That's why they all appear equidistant from the camera as it makes it's arc. They are actually standing in a big circle.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thanks for posting, Jim. Where did you find film for it?

 

[jimgalli]

Thanks for posting, Jim. Where did you find film for it?

When the aerial reconnaissance film guys were all switching to digital about 10 years ago and the 9.5" X125 foot rolls of good Kodak film were showing up on Ebay, I bought a bunch of it and it is stored in my freezer / fridge. Works great in Cirkut cameras. It's all getting a bit long in the tooth now, and when it does show up on ebay, the prices are pretty stupid. So lucky me. I had a bit of foresight and 'stocked up'. I have enough to still be making Cirkut pictures half way through the millenial reign of Jesus.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thanks, Jim. I remember seeing some at ebay years ago. I should have bought some...