Old lanterns

[Iand]

Hi All

 

Currently working on Blythe Spirit which has a lighting equipment list in the back of the script from a production at the Piccadilly Theatre in London in 1941. As well as the usual Battens and floods over the stage they had just 6 "1k Focus spots" FOH, a spot bar with 12 circuits on it and something called a Pageant Sun Spot with no4 amber in it pointing on stage through the french window.. A quick google doesn't turn up anything for a "Pageant Sun Spot". Just out of interest does anyone know what one looked like? also what would the "1k focus spots" be?

[Gerry]

.."Pageant Sun Spot". Just out of interest does anyone know what one looked like? also what would the "1k focus spots" be?

Can't find any photos at the moment but a "Pageant Sun Spot" was an early version of a beam light.

A "1k focus spot" was as the name suggests, a lantern with a 1K lamp which could be focussed.

Cheers

Gerry

Old enough to have used both types of lanterns.

 

ETA See My link and My link but this is of the 500W version, the, Pat 43, 1K version was bigger.

[Supertrouper6]

The Strand Patt 50a And Patt 58 were both described a Pageant Lanterns. The Patt 50a having a GLS lampholer and spill rings this was replaced by the Patt 58 which had a Large Prefocus P40 lampholder . Both were described as being "particularly suitable for simulating sunlight" Just to be confusing the Patt 501 Sunspot mirror arc was a carbon arc followspot

[gibbothegreat]

The Strand Patt 50a And Patt 58 were both described a Pageant Lanterns. The Patt 50a having a GLS lampholer and spill rings this was replaced by the Patt 58 which had a Large Prefocus P40 lampholder . Both were described as being "particularly suitable for simulating sunlight" Just to be confusing the Patt 501 Sunspot mirror arc was a carbon arc followspot

 

Some more info here: http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?eid=750199c5-14ec-40c2-b2a2-923f5038721c&pnum=28

[Just Some Bloke]

For those who are wondering, the "no4 gel" is the equivalent of what we'd now call Lee 104, though then it would probably be Cinemoid no4, made by Strand.

[Ken Coker]

From my 1936/37 Strand Catalogue - sorry they are photographs, the catalogue is hardbound and wouldn't stand the scanner.

 

KC

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f184/kclx1/Focus_01_zps06e74e47.jpg

 

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f184/kclx1/Focus_02_zps0c4915a4.jpg