... now what do I do with 'em? I already made a couple of pulls, now I just need guidance as to what to do with the rest of them.

Sammy the Kid

Put a ball with an elastic through them. Now put the ends of the elastic through each side of the canister at the bottom. Stretch the ball to the opening. You now have a gimmick that will deliver silver dust or confetti to your hand.

Hang onto them... With digital photography taking over, they'll be collectables! Your great great, great grandchildren will be filthy rich!

Seriously though, I have found that by discarding the lids and attaching 3 or 4 to a small piece of wood about the size of a 12 inch ruler, (but only about 6 inches long) and then putting velcro on the back of the piece of ruler, it sticks nicely to the back edge of my table - allowing a quick and convenient place to put silks. When you need a silk during the show, just reach down, grab the corner of the appropriate colored silk and pull up. It keeps them neatly out of the way of your other props and keeps them from taking up valuable shelf space in your table.

Another use that I have found for a film cannister is to mount a single cannister to a piece of cardboard or wood that fits in your pocket. The wood or cardboard keeps the film cannister upright. In the cannister, place a TT with water and a small goldfish in it. Wa-la! A nice little live fish production!

In a pinch, when I was on the road once and had forgotten a certain little prop neeeded to make my silks change colors, I have also glued the lid on to a cannister after cutting a round hole in the lid and another hole in the bottom of the cannister. This made a great little emergency dye tube after I put flesh colored tape (cloth bandaids) around the whole cannister.

Lyndel

Glue them inside off your open box (out of sight) to hold thumb tips. Good for exchanging them after you have don't one off. Also can hold a die tube.
Rick

These canisters are fairly easy to palm and can be switched.

One idea is to drop ten pennies into one, do a switch and pour out two nickels.

Another would be to drop paper clips and have them linked.

Might also be rigged as a pull or holdout for sponges, silks or... ????

Shell game?

Do you know the gimmick called a "silk poke" ?

If you do , then this will be self-explanatory ---

take the film canister and glue one of these along the inside wall of the canister :

http://www.mypencil.com/mall/new14004.jpg

This is a foam pencil grip, made by Rogers. (other brands will work, but the foam ones are best because they are very compressible and have a good "cling" to the pencil or pen when you push it in to the grip)

Paint it flesh color or wrap some Band-aids around it to make it flesh colored.

They can hold your sponge balls as well
cheers chris

I use them in Bizarre magick to hold certain things that need to be damp or require a certain bit of moisture to work, like the goldenrod paper, and the solution, on a sponge in the film can...
Kay