A few months ago, I got in two 8" PC versions of Pevear brand color wheel accessory mounted spotlights for as theorized lighting the cyc. (One is complete from stand to accessory - really cool to find all the parts to it.) Two different styles of the fixtures - one like below where the glass mount is fixed, and one where it's adjustable - really cool! Possibly one of the most unusual fixtures I have ever seen.
Got one of two 6" box spots of the same brand from the down lights on the procenium arch this week. C.1924.... Introducing a theoretical pre-Fresnel... dead branch on the history of lighting tree of pre-Fresnel.
I theorized on the PC fixtures a frosted edge donut lens, here we have this asbestos padded pane of glass holder again (missing....)
Hopefully the second one still in the procenium has its lens - but doubtful in having to remove the lens to change a lamp, and it was still working over a year ago when I got to the theater.
So, PC single lens fixture has a very hard almost photographic grainy edge. Not clean edge like a modern Leko.... just kind of hard edge but hard to describe in once designing a show about that look from the PC. Got an "Elephant in a Shoe Box" award in part of this tasked lighting concept for that show. I have designed with PC fixtures in the past.
Kind of brilliant if my theory holds of a frosted donut edged lens softening the harsh edge of a PC fixture. Nobody else was doing this seemingly except Pevear. This would in theory make a kind of Fresnel soft edge beame look out of the otherwise PC beam of light. This is also in 1924, the Fresnel was not invented until 1928 or 1932 subject for debate in various texts. Love my job in at times in finding stuff. Unfortunately I don't always get a sample of what I see, but at least I saw it and know it exists.
Curious on top of the fixture is some kind of bracket / holder for a something I don't know... Assuming it's a down light projecting thru holes in the ceiling, what is the point of this bracket for something at the top of the fixture? Way too many vent holes - inefficient in labor needed to light shield the amount of holes, means it's a fixture for more than one angle. Never seen a card holder bracket to a fixture before. No idea on what is up with that other than, if lens is pointed downward as normal, any such card would tend to fall out. Curious.
Got one of two 6" box spots of the same brand from the down lights on the procenium arch this week. C.1924.... Introducing a theoretical pre-Fresnel... dead branch on the history of lighting tree of pre-Fresnel.
I theorized on the PC fixtures a frosted edge donut lens, here we have this asbestos padded pane of glass holder again (missing....)
Hopefully the second one still in the procenium has its lens - but doubtful in having to remove the lens to change a lamp, and it was still working over a year ago when I got to the theater.
So, PC single lens fixture has a very hard almost photographic grainy edge. Not clean edge like a modern Leko.... just kind of hard edge but hard to describe in once designing a show about that look from the PC. Got an "Elephant in a Shoe Box" award in part of this tasked lighting concept for that show. I have designed with PC fixtures in the past.
Kind of brilliant if my theory holds of a frosted donut edged lens softening the harsh edge of a PC fixture. Nobody else was doing this seemingly except Pevear. This would in theory make a kind of Fresnel soft edge beame look out of the otherwise PC beam of light. This is also in 1924, the Fresnel was not invented until 1928 or 1932 subject for debate in various texts. Love my job in at times in finding stuff. Unfortunately I don't always get a sample of what I see, but at least I saw it and know it exists.
Curious on top of the fixture is some kind of bracket / holder for a something I don't know... Assuming it's a down light projecting thru holes in the ceiling, what is the point of this bracket for something at the top of the fixture? Way too many vent holes - inefficient in labor needed to light shield the amount of holes, means it's a fixture for more than one angle. Never seen a card holder bracket to a fixture before. No idea on what is up with that other than, if lens is pointed downward as normal, any such card would tend to fall out. Curious.
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