Design Issues and Solutions -

[Lightguy5]

I have an odd pattern in my inventory.
I've scoured the catalogs that I'm aware of: GAM, Rosco, Apollo, Lee, SFX, and can't find it. GAM has the most similar (215) and that's probably where I'll file it, but it's gotten under my skin now.

That's a truncated ?32 in the lower left corner.
Any clue?

[zmb]

Can we also be enlightened on the history of square gobos? Were these insurance against your forest-lit cyc looking sideways?

[derekleffew]

Can we also be enlightened on the history of square gobos? ...

In the olden days, 1975, all template s came rectangular and over-sized, intended to be cut with scissors by the end user to fit the appropriate pattern holder for his 360/360Q, Century Leko, Kliegl 1355, or other ERS unit. First from Colortran and then from GAM. It wasn't until the mid-1980s that gobos started coming in round. I believe Rosco may have been the first, but it might have been a now-defunct company, Theatre Magic, from Columbus, OH.

Lightguy5, I'd almost swear that was a Great American Market pattern. Perhaps now discontinued for whatever reason. I'd send them an email, if no one here identifies it. Sorry to say, my collection of 1970s gobo catalogs is sadly insufficient.

[cbrandt]

I'd second GAM. That looks like the stamping they use on their gobos. I've sorted an awful lot of them that look exactly like that, with half the number missing, and no identifiers. Thank goodness whoever made the gobo books in my shop had the foresight to include pictures of the pattern.

[Lightguy5]

The only issue I have is that GAM, in my experience has always put their numbers at the top of the pattern (at least of the older square ones). This number is below.

I think I read somewhere that SFX took over the TM gobo line. I've got a few of those as well.

Thanks, so far, guys.