4-Pack: Portable Solar & Hand Crank LED Flashlight/Lanterns
- You get 4 flashlights that can also work as work lights.
- They have lithium solar batteries that you can charge using the power of the stars!
- If there’s no sun, you can crank them.
- When cranking them gets monotonous, just pretend you’re fishing.
- Model Number: V35042. According to Wikipedia, V8 juice got its name because it “contained juice from eight different vegetables.” Therefore, as Campbell keeps expanding its flavor profile, there may be a conflict of interest. You heard it here first!
Crank It Up
“Cut,” screamed the director. “Cut, cut, cut!”
The actors threw up their hands. The camera man shook his head. The boom operator brought the boom mic booming to the ground in disgust.
“What,” the director said, “is that infernal noise?”
“Sorry,” said the PA. “It’s my light. It ran out of battery so I had to crank it.”
“Didn’t I tell you to crank this morning, to make sure it had enough charge to light the scene?”
“Yeah, you did,” said the PA, “But, sir, I gotta be honest, I don’t think this is the right light for a film set. I mean, I could see the utility of having one at your house. If there were to be a power outage, you wouldn’t have to worry about having AA batteries around, because you can just crank it. Beyond that, it can function as both a flashlight and a work light, and it’s got a magnetic base. But none of those things really make it very good at lighting a film scene.”
“Look, I’ll level with you,” the director said. “It came down to getting a professional light kit or a crane. And I said, ‘Get the crane.’”
“But we don’t need a crane.”
The director laughed. “‘We don’t need a crane,’ is exactly what people say before they need a crane. Now, we don’t want to fall too far behind schedule. Is there any way to charge that thing without making that terrible noise?”
The PA shrugged. “I mean, it can also be charged with solar power but…”
“Great!” the director pulled out a walkie-talkie. “Crane! Tear the roof off the studio so we can get some sun in here! We’ve got a film to light, damnit!”