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Giant Book set design

Fri, 6 Aug 2010, 09:02 am
flangelap12 posts in thread
Hi. My name is Jason Bancroft and i am a Drama Teacher in Western Australia. For our next production, i would like to make the set a giant book measuring 3m tall with pages 4m wide. Each page could then be turned (on casters) to set the next scene providing a total of 4 scenes comprising of 3 pages and a front and back cover. Visually, i can see what i want but our maintainence team at the school are having difficulties coming up with a construction solution. We are able to bolt the spine of the book to a brick wall but are unsure how to create braced pages that are light enough to move. Anyone who could offer any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Davids rotating spigot

Wed, 11 Aug 2010, 10:18 am

Davids rotating spigot plate would work well, with the booked pages. But I would suggest on the booked spine using these type of hindges ;- http://www.doughty-engineering.co.uk/cgi-bin/trolleyed_public.cgi?action=showprod_T61700

You can produce them easily yourselves utalising ordinary butt hidges, grinding off thier hindge pin & bending up a suitable rod.

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