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Tom and Jerry – Safety Second never play with fireworks so dont try this at home kids.

This is a sign from Disneyland, those clever Mickey Mouse fans have adapted the words “loud bang” into “laod bhang” to give a far eastern feel to the name on the sign.

For some reason this seems normal in America. You can almost hear the banjo’s.

Again, in America this may be acceptable but it does seem like a bad combination. Of course you may need a landry service after seeing such Americans drunk and with fireworks.

This sign just seems wrong. They might as well put one underneath it saying “no smiling”.

V is for vandalism. Remember kids, witty sl0gan or not, it should not be scrawled on a wall without the owners permission.

This young lad is probably closer than 25Metres from the fireworks here. I wonder if he is wearing safety goggles? He seems to be adjusting something on his face. Parents! keep an eye on your kids at fireworks displays!

This is a great shot of the crowd enjoying the fireworks, it looks like they are standing very close to the action but in all likelihood they are quite a distance from it, the silhouetted figures are a nice effect and make for a really nice photo.

Dancing near the fireworks. This is strongly not recommended.

GI Joe (Action Man for the UK) is standing way too close to the fireworks. However he is a brave soldier, and being made of plastic means that no-one can really get hurt.

OK, this guy is definately made of plastic and as such is also guaranteed to walk away without a scratch. This lego chap should still not be holding a firework as we all know that it is very dangerous. Fireworks Safety is important people!

Even Mickey is getting in on the action “look at me kids! I’m playing with fireworks!” Probably not the best message to send out there Mickey. I hope there was some kind of disclaimer after the show warning people not to attempt this themselves….Speaking of which…Do not attempt to do any of this yourselves people. All the pictures featured here showed trained professionals/plastic toys/muppets who don’t know any better. You do know better so never fool with fireworks.

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Or is it the most amazing rocket rack you have ever seen?

This is hardcore stuff. Found in an old book dating from 1668, this was the way to make fireworks at the time. What you see here are digitized images taken straight from the book, which was entitled: Lettres a une princesse d’Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie. Roughly (very roughly) translated as: Letters to a German Princess on various topics in physics and philosophy.

This book was written by a man named Leonhard Euler who, presumably knew a German Princess and wrote her letters. In this book, besides talking about fireworks. He talks about such diverse things as,

• How to make dainty sport with a cat
• A speedy way to make a horse fat, plump and lusty
• To put ones finger in, or to wash it in lead
• and the classic: how (for a wager) to cleave a thin groate in sunder like two groates

Yes, all the important things a 17th century princess would want to know (PS this is all totally genuine, we are not making it up, we wish we were, but we’re not.)

The most amazing for us of course are the pages upon pages of brilliant and incredibly complicated instructions for making and using fireworks.

Heres some of the text and images from this amazing book.

Aerial shells have certainly come a long way.

Lancework (also called setpieces) were insanely dramatic it seems, with all manner of creatures being portrayed. It looks as if as much work went into the machine (the wooden device used to conceal the actual firework) as went into the fireworks themselves.

Please please please, do not try this at home, seriously. However delectable to the spectators it may seem. Pyrotechnic compositions should only be attempted by trained and qualified professionals (or 17th  century german princesses)

So that should all be clear enough, if you can have your finished results in by Monday.

There are far too many pages of these to put them all here, but here is a link to the google books source that we guarantee will keep you entertained for hours. We stress again that nothing you have read here should be attempted. Leave it to the professionals.

Cute and clever piece of artwork in homage to everyones favourite past-time, fireworks! The little box appears to be holding a rocket and looking expectantly at the big box.

We are not holding a caption competition and would not like to know what you imagine the little box is saying to the big box.

However if you insist on telling us we will not argue.

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Over at Bob Shea and Lane Smith’s wonderful Curious Pages blog, they’ve posted the classic Jim Flora children’s book, The Fabulous Firework Family (1955). Flora is best known for his distinctive designs for RCA and Columbia Record jackets, magazines and various commercial art projects of the 40s and 50s. The Fabulous Firework Family launched Flora’s second career as a children’s book author and illustrator.

The book was acquired by Terrytoons during the Gene Deitch era (1956-1958) and the resulting film turned out to be the last cartoon Deitch personally produced at the studio. Al Kouzel directed and, though Flora was involved with adapting the story to the screen, the final result wasn’t entirely successful in translating the charm of the original book.

It’s illuminating to compare the book to the cartoon. Below is a pan-and-scan TV version of the Terrytoon, sans credits. (The original CinemaScope version of the film, with full credits, will be screened March 2nd at my Wide Screen Cartoons program at the CineFamily/Silent Movie Theatre).

Nocturnal has released a new trailer for Flowerworks, this time showcasing the Wii version of this action-adventure game combining flowers and fireworks. In the game, you’ll play Follie, a friendly but confused alien who crash lands on the mysterious planet Elilia, whilst transporting a cargo of Flowerworks seeds. You can explore the planet and unravel its secret but you will also grow flowers, explode fireworks or fight gnomes.

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