Thread: good use for a mannequin head

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does anyone remember resussitation annie? well, my neice picked her up at a garage sale for me. it is just her head part. i have been thinking of hooking her up to a pump and have blood squirting from her mouth. is this easy to go about, and how does one do this? and would it be easy and possible to set it so it just squirted at intervals, not a steady flow. also would like some original scene ideas.

steady flow would easly be done with a small cheap fountain pump but at intervals i cant be of any help there....

in case i don't find an interval way, i will be glad to have this idea. by a small cheap fountain pump do i go to a hardware store? i know nothing about pumps?

Great selection of fountain and pond pumps at lowes.

thanks, we don't have a lowes but i imagine a mernards would work. this year i am doing a mystical, magical, madness theme. it will be wizards, witches, and warlocks, and a magician. i was thinking for a scene where i could rig up a fake body and have her head. the magigian could saw her in half, [this is for tot so nothing to gory] and then i could have blood come out of her mouth or i could have her spray warm water at the kids [just a light spray, don't want to mess up their costumes and it will probably be cold out]. what do you think, any other ideas?

Ressusie Annie looked so pale like a drowning victim. Maybe you could make a head in a jar, or head on a platter prop.

ooohhh, i like those ideas madame. i could see the head in the jar, pale and still spitting blood, oh so fresh. on the platter, lets see, fingers all around and she's spewing out the the fondue dip. i like those ideas. thanks madame, the fondue one would even be good for a party.

Hey hallorenescene,

I just happened on this thread, as I am working on my own fountain for this halloween. One thought about getting just spurts of blood, if you are having an actor control the scene, you might consider splicing a floor mat, or some other kind of triggering system into the pump, so that the actor could trigger the pump on for only an instant, thus getting just one good squirt and then it would turn back off, ready for the next group of TOTs.

-handy_haunter

I installed two electric water valves from a furnace humidifier, one valve wired normally on for the normal water going into the faucet, the other valve wired normally off allowing water to feed a container full of red food coloring.
The switch only let one valve be energized at a time so water was either normal or red.
The other valve switched off, held back the water so the other valve could do it's thing, whichever "thing" it was.

Wow you guys, thanks for your advice, the mat sounds the easiest but believe it or not even it is over my head. maybe i can tell it to a car mechanic and he could help me. or a picture tuitorial?