Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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:an't abdicate. The very next day, March 15th, they shot down King joe with a Thomson model machine gun. The peo- ple, being very thrifty, took the bullet Kite Camera holes out of ex-King Joe II and put them into doughnuts. And that is how doughnuts got their holes. by RICHARD SCHRICK, 82 F rom experimenting with a Uni- vex Box Camera fastened to a kite, Omar Gonzales of San Antonio, Texas, has found that he can make aerial shots with- out using an airplane. This discovery makes aerial photography possible for everyone. The finished picture is very clear even though it is taken from about two or three hundred feet in the air. I myself have made a kite camera and have found it full of fun and enjoyment. The materials that I needed for my kite camera included a lightweight camera, such as a small Univex Box Camera which can be had for only one dollarg about ten feet of one-half inch by one inch balsa woodg and a large sheet of wrapping pa- per about five feet square. After I had procured these materials I was ready for the construction of my kite. The kite is the same as the regular kites you see except for the fact that it is much larger. The piece of wood that runs from the top to the bottom of the kite is three feet long. The two side Shore Road from lhe Kile Camera I4 pieces at the top of the kite are one and one-half feet long, while the two side pieces at the bottom are two feet long. The balsa wood is glued together and tied with string to prevent the joints from coming apart. The brown wrapping paper is then glued to this frame on one side only. The kite is now finished except for a tail which is made of strips of cloth, and which is fastened to the bottom point of the kite. This is done to prevent the kite from tail-spinning and looping while it is in the air. The next thing which has to be built is the camera platform. This is a slab of wood about Eve inches long, four inches wide, and one-half inch thick. The camera is fastened to this with strings wrapped around it and then around the platform. The platform, with the camera fastened to it, is then tied to the kite by means of stout pieces of cord. The shutter release on the camera is a trip shutter, one that is pressed down on the face of the camera in an arc. It is held by a rubber band and a string. Then the string is released by lighting one end of it while the kite is on the ground. The string continues burning while the kite is in the air, and when it is all burned it releases the pressure on the rubber band. The snap of the rubber band pulls the shutter release and thus is the picture snapped. I have a picture of a seashore scene,

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world was only a few feet thick and under it was-water! It suddenly came to me. I was actually living on a globule of water from the glass I had spilt! As I turned to leave by the same door I had entered by, I found that I had to stoop to go through it now! I was grow- ing larger again! Everything went black and I remembered no more. I came to fully clothed, just hitting the floor as the last remnants of the broken glasses tumbled down about me. My but- ler assisted me to my feet the moment he entered. I said nothing to him, however, and explained that it was an accident. The moment the butler left me, I destroyed the formula of that hellish fluid and threw the remaining pelamanthiate down the drain. Sometimes as I lie in bed at night, I wonder if it was all just a dream, but no! I still have a cut on my arm with some pale yellow stains on it. How the Doughnut Got Its Hole by ALLAN GOLD, A53 Illustrated by Frank Blumetti, 810 Once upon a time doughnuts were solid! They did not have, as dough- nuts have now, a hole through the center. In the land of Nahootnihigh there ruled a king named Joe Il. He was a very good king. He ruled justly, accepted bribes, and never refused to pay black- mail. His people loved him and showed their great love by not attempting assassi- nations on Saturday and Wednesday. joe II returned this love by reducing the tax on air to one cent a breath. This state of affairs pleased no one but the criminals of the country. One day an American tourist came to Nahootnihigh. This may not seem very remarkable, unless one considers the fact that America had not yet been discovered. But a little thing like that can't stop an American tourist. This tourist was a beau- tiful young lady of sixty-three and King joe, having never seen an American be- fore, fell head over heels in love with her. But the American tourist was not of royal blood and everyone was horrified at the thought of having a commoner for queen. There was nothing else for poor King Joe to do but abdicate. However the criminals of Nahootnihigh didn't like this. If some one else became king they might not be so well off. One dark night they met and decided to assassinate King Joe because everyone knows a dead king - .- ai-qs-Q.r.'g . 1' f-,fy ' , .., -Z j'1'lj. !7f-'f Qf,t, ' ' .f,Q-'rlififi .AL N gp. t .M , 5 -. . I -. - V Ii-Lai.-. Nr: - - ' I - ' TQ, -.,. 'i E ' I f , ' 'f 515175 K 1 , ' 'A 535 -..' . 5 - . ,' Nt -' ' . --L 1 ' - . ig., 5 , , - -, . 'Z ' ,.f' . - 3:55 ' , ' '-Pc 5 J' , ' I'-it-:'. i-:TIL .xxx fl 'Al i I' A ,. ,figs V 2, 57 ' Q 1.5 5' .rr M I f - J f-f'i,L ' ' - ., . - .ffl ,.,, ., 3 ' ,.',.' I - 1, t. ff' . -V ' 14- '. 'a x ' - ., .- .,, gin' , 1, 974 a, '. 1- - -' - 322: fi 4 Q79 ,532 - . ::m g5yzag,-p ' any-H ad, 5 -' IH ' 3129-jg1':,. . - p I -j . 'UK 1. ,ff1A!'.' , . . 4649+ X5 lflqfhl, IW' Q t. f kQ,jfV,431ll0 Sf'z l5i5'i f -. . ' Vfigsfhfrx--22'?'f ' c ,,,,'.r. ,A V . .. .. .. --C - -:'-.,'Q,f',.r- aj,:.,r 1' H 13

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showing the ocean, the beach, and the people bathing. Whenever I show it to any people, they ask me if it was taken in the air from an airplane. When I tell them that it was taken with my kite camera, they don't believe me at first be- cause the picture is such a good one. I have used my kite camera at Roosevelt Airport quite often, and the pictures I have obtained seem to have been taken from an airplane. They have very fine detail in them, in that they show the hangars and the airplanes grouped around them. Different pictures may be taken in hori- zontal and vertical positions, according to the way I put my camera on the kite. I have found horizontal pictures better be- cause they have more range in the width of the picture than in height. When a picture is taken vertically, you may get a After the Rain l With ibe Help of the Wind picture of the sky when you don't want to. I have had much enjoyment from this type of photography because of the unique way the picture is taken. You can't realize the suspense I went through when I developed my first roll of nega- tives from my kite camera. I didn't know whether they had turned out or not, and when I saw that they had, you can't ima- gine how happy I was. by ROBERT GERAGHTY, 79 Illustrated by Richard Rauschkolb, 7G5 His legs were as heavy as the humid air that pressed down on him, threatening to constrict his chest with its serpentine pressure. His lungs were raw and his breath came in soul-racking gasps that pulled and strained at his muscles. He looked up, and through the film of sweat that clouded his bloodshot eyes, he saw the gray, ominous sheet that hung low over his head. It was like a tremendous weight pressing down on him. He wanted to give in, to fall beneath its heavy pall, and be pressed into the brown earth till it covered his face and body, till it shut out that awful greyness that was trying to en- gulf him in its hungry maw. How easy, how nice it would be, just to let his legs fold under him and slip into the soft, warm mud, but no! He mustn't stop- there was so much to do-and only he to do it. So on and on he plodded through the mists, through the mud that sucked at his feet-it was as though some living, pal- pable thing were reaching out to swallow him. The blood pounded and thundered in his ears, a white hot band of iron was crushing his chest. Rest! Why couldn't he stop just a moment-and rest? No! He mustn't stop-he couldn't stop-for if he did he would never gather enough strength or courage to start again. Rest was not for him-he must go on, eternally it seemed, until his dreadful mission was completed. 15