Apple Boxes

Lizardland Film Video HD wants to talk about Apple Boxes today. I thought that they maybe made them out of old apple crates back in the day. However they are actually made out of appleply which is alder or birch. They come in 4 sizes, full, half, quarter and the 1" is called a pancake. They have many uses. Mostly to raise things. We use them for our slider often. You can use them for electrical cords, grip chairs and with a baby plate for a light stand. A nickname for an apple box is "man maker". It makes a short actor taller. So when a director in the Phoenix Video Production community calls for a full or half you know what they are talking about. A really seasoned grip knows New York, California and Texas applies to apple boxes. New York is upright, Texas is flat and California is on it's side. At Lizardlandvideo.com we have made a lot of our own boxes, however upon pricing them it works out about to be about the same cost to purchase them. Today I would not be surprised if our young grips thought the name had something to do with Apple corporation because just about everything else you use does. Doesn't it?