September 2006
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 9m
English
book
Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, Broadcast, and Entertainment
by Richard Cadena
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Chapter 11
Electromechanical Systems
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.—Galileo Galilei
June 6, 1986 is the day I started working in the entertainment industry. As an electronics technician, I was hired by my new employer, Blackstone Audio Visual, to help keep the lighting, audio, and video gear working that was installed in various nightclubs around the country. Late that summer I got my first hands-on experience with an automated moving fixture. It was a 350-watt moving mirror fixture manufactured by an Italian lighting company called Coemar. It had exactly five control channels: pan, tilt, color, gobo, and shutter.
At about $2500 each, ...