26LIGHTING FOR FILM AND VIDEO
Before the advent of options created to personally select your favorite music videos and concerts and viewing them on YouTube, dedicated channels on cable TV and streaming computer shows from Netflix, rock & roll concerts were live! If you missed one, your next opportunity to see the band came the next time they toured. In 1972, a show called In Concert debuted on ABC. The popularity was so immense that in less than a year, it spawned executive producer’s eponymous, Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, with lighting by none other than James Moody, and it was the first of its kind to run successfully in syndication until 1981. Midnight Special was more of a variety style than a full length concert that show-cased rock bands ...
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