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Posted by Grant Fitzgerald (Member # 2796) on January 28, 2012, 03:03 PM:

I made this custom box made out of a modified cereal box to fit my copy of Battleship Potempkin (Great film btw, such an important part of cinema history). Anyways, I had to transfer my copy to smaller reels since the Chinon 7000 only plays up to 600' and there was an 800' and a very full 600'. So I wanted to transfer these onto 4x400 and keep it in a nice box. So I came up with this. Using a Honey-nut Cheerios Box cut down and then taped to make a square. Cover it with White paper and printed a picture I found from Google and added a side title (I found that titles always face up to the front cover. Enjoy!

Posted by Leon Thomas Jones (Member # 2731) on January 28, 2012, 03:16 PM:

Hi Grant ,
These boxes look great and would look beautiful part of any cine collection.Thank you for sharing your ideas with me.I am going to try making one for my Tarzan 4 x400ft.Thank you
Regards
Leon

Posted by Christian Bjorgen (Member # 1780) on January 28, 2012, 04:02 PM:

Very nice, Grant! I made something quite similar once from an old Corn Flakes box for my 4x400 of Gullivers Travels!

Will see if I can find pictures!

Edit:
Found it!

Posted by Grant Fitzgerald (Member # 2796) on January 29, 2012, 09:52 AM:

How did you make the separators. I wanted to do that but didn't know how.

Posted by Christian Bjorgen (Member # 1780) on February 07, 2012, 02:14 PM:

I made the box around the old 400' boxes. So it's basically a shell for the four seperate 400' boxes made from a Corn Flakes box :-)

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on February 07, 2012, 07:31 PM:

You guys are awesome! I love that idea. Both look great. I'm going the other way. Transfering 400' to 800' or 1200' reels. Then making my own boxes from foam board. What a great hobby. Keep up the good work guys! [Smile]

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