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Theatre Lighting in the Age of Gas
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FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION Coal Gas as Entertainment; 2 CANDLES AND OIL LAMPS The Introduction of Gas Into the Theatre, Oil gas; 3 GAS ON STAGE: FLOAT, WINGS, BATTENS, GROUND ROWS, LENGTHS AND STANDARDS; 4 THE LIME-LIGHT; 5 THE ELECTRIC CARBON-ARC AND THE MAGNESIUM LAMP; 6 THE MAGIC LANTERN, DISSOLVING VIEWS, AND AN EARLY USE OF CINEMATAOGRAPH; 7 AUDITORIUM LIGHTING The Sun-Burner. Gas Supply and Control. The Gas Plate and the Water Joint; 8 GAS MAN'S DUTIES Lighting the Rehearsal. Exterior Lighting. Pilot Lights and Electrical Ignition. Rehearsing the Lighting; 9 PAINTED LIGHT Lighting effects managed or assisted by scenery. Rise and Sink. Gauzes. Focussed Light; 10 LIGHTING EFFECTS Conflagrations. Coloured Fire. Transformation Scenes; 11 ACCIDENTS; 12 THE INCANDESCENT CARBON-FILAMENT LAMP; 13 "TOO MUCH LIGHT" Early Lighting Symbolism. A Lighting Plot of the 1880s; APPENDIX 1 Two Inventories of Lighting Equipment. Theatre Royal, Hull, 1877. Covent Garden, 1887-92; APPENDIX 2 Formulae for Coloured Fire; APPENDIX 3 How to fit a Theatre Throughout with Gas. A Turn-of-the-Century Guide for Gas Fitters; NOTES; ADDENDUM; INDEX

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