(From 'Memories 3')
I spent a significant part of my childhood totally blind, with glowing red eyes and a blank expression. We have a drawer full of photos to prove it, somewhere. They’re probably at my oldest sister Lynn’s house. Or at Cathy’s. Or in somebody’s attic. But I know we kept all the old photos because they were a big deal back in the Sixties and cost millions of dollars.
The photos were made possible by Kodak Instamatic Cameras and their lethal Flashcubes that were more powerful and complex than NASA rockets. According to scientists, when the shutter was pressed: “The springs would strike a primer, which included a fulminate that in turn ignited shredded zirconium foil in the flash.” That would release the energy and light of 10,000 suns directly into your eyeballs.
But as powerful as Magicubes were, they were child’s play compared to the Light Bar my uncle used with his amazing Super 8 movie camera. On Christmas Eve, when Uncle Dickie fired up his bazooka of a movie camera and its lethal light bar, they’d suck the oxygen right out of his huge den, leaving our entire family gasping for air. Even if you were 20 feet away, the top three or four layers of skin would vaporize right off your face...
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