Sylvania multiple flash bulb pictures: Back in the 40s and 50s I remember Sylvania, the manufacture of flashbulbs had several pictures that were shown in Life Magazine. The one that I...

Boney Loc: Huntington Beach

Back in the 40s and 50s I remember Sylvania, the manufacture of flashbulbs had several pictures that were shown in Life Magazine. The one that I remember that was quite impressive was where many flashbulbs were setup on the Great Pyramid and then a picture made of the whole pyramid being lit up by these hundreds of flashbulbs.
I went looking for these pictures on the internet and couldn't find a single one.
I was wondering if anyone know the whereabouts of some of these old pictures? If they are on line please post a link that we could follow.

flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

Took about a minute to find this:

http://bigshot.cad.rit.edu/examplepage/

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Neat!

anotherview Loc: California

Interesting lighting processes.

flip1948 wrote:

Took about a minute to find this:

http://bigshot.cad.rit.edu/examplepage/

rcarol

flip1948 wrote:

Took about a minute to find this:

http://bigshot.cad.rit.edu/examplepage/

There were others as well. I have a slight recollection of a bigshot taken of a cruise ship.

ELNikkor

A few years ago, my neighbors asked us to come with them for a Big Shot of the Kodak HQ building here in Rochester. I had never heard of "Big Shot", and was busy that night, but they went and were a part of it. I was skeptical they could light up that huge building with flashlights. Not sure how it turned out.

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

If you want to see some extraordinary multiple flash pictures, look up O.W. Link and his night time railroad train photos. Artistically and historically interesting, technically great. https://www.incredibleart.com/o-winston-link/

anotherview Loc: California

Good morning. Thanks for the Web-link to the train photographs and the brief biography of the photographer. His dedication to his subject, the steam train, inspires.

abc1234 wrote:

If you want to see some extraordinary multiple flash pictures, look up O.W. Link and his night time railroad train photos. Artistically and historically interesting, technically great. https://www.incredibleart.com/o-winston-link/

elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

Boney wrote:

Back in the 40s and 50s I remember Sylvania, the m... (show quote)

Sylvania also had monthly full-page ads in most of the major photography magazines, even into the late 60s. I started reading my uncle's Popular Photography magazines a year or so before I even received a SLR camera as a high school graduation gift from my family. Periodically, to thin out the bulk of my own magazine subscriptions, I saved many articles and ads as well. I did save some of the Sylvania "Big Shot" ads but they're probably in binders I put in my storage space after I retired in 2008.

Here's a link to an article about other "Big Shots" through the years: https://news.wttw.com/2019/11/06/ask-geoffrey-big-shot-museum-science-and-industry

Be well! Ed

Michael Sabetsky Loc: Rockledge, Florida

Boney wrote:

Back in the 40s and 50s I remember Sylvania, the m... (show quote)

I was also many years ago looking for a Life Magazine that had my photo in it. I was at a Mets game at the Pologrounds ( before they moved to Shea Stadium). It was after a game where Jim Hickman kit a grandslam to win the game. Even forget the date now. I think it was July 1964 & it had a picture on the front cover of a Pope being chosen. Lost the copy I had & don't know where to get it. Tried but failed.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

abc1234 wrote:

If you want to see some extraordinary multiple flash pictures, look up O.W. Link and his night time railroad train photos. Artistically and historically interesting, technically great. https://www.incredibleart.com/o-winston-link/

His shot of the couple in their car at a drive in with an airplane on the movie screen while a train passes the parking lot is a classic.