“Apple Boxes” are wooden crates of varying sizes with holes on each end, used chiefly in film. They are used for anything that needs to be propped up or supported temporarily. They can be used to prop up light stands or for leveling a camera dolly track. Often the need arises to make an actor appear taller, either because of their height, or to fit with the angle of a certain camera shot. In this use apple boxes are jokingly referred to as “man makers.”
-Nook Schoenfeld
