B. Russell Hessey

Non-Guns provide lifelike silent gunfire flashes in a wide range of gun profiles (long guns, pistols, revolvers, etc.). There is no blank storage involved, no jams, no misfires or muzzle debris. Each flash records on film.

 Scientific or Technical Awards (Class III) 1969: For a machine-gun modification for motion picture photography. (w. Robert M. Flynn)
 Technical Achievement Award (Certificate) 1994: For the non-gun safety blank firing system. (Special Effect Spectacular, Inc., hardware design) (w. Vincent T. Kelton - also hardware design - and George Jackman of De La Mare Engineering, Inc. - pyrotechnic development)

2 Scientific/Technical Awards