I showed these pictures to a fairly new stagehand and told him they had two sets of four shutters and he didn't think it was a good idea. When he told me why, I kind of had to agree with him, as many times I've been calling an FOH focus and asked for a bottom cut to the edge of the stage and gotten my head cut off!
I can only imagine: "No, no, not the soft shutter, the hard shutter, not that one, the one on the other side of the fixture. No, the other one."
Uh oh, you're in trouble now!I've painted orange extension cord with black spray paint before, and those were my results.
And I doubt you ever will, unless you buy these. To my knowledge no Strand Electric fixtures were ever sold in the US, and I suspect the only way they could have gotten here is that they came over with a West End to Broadway transfer, which wasn't all that common until ALW. Maybe Richard Pilbrow or David Hersey demanded them for something here?..I've never had the chance to check out these dual shutters, so I withhold my judgment...
That seller is nutz! $149 for a pair of 1355s?! Which by the way, came with fiberglass sleeved leads which itched like the dickens, a 6 7/8" (?) color frame, a hole in the reflector one could drive a truck through, and step lenses with black painted risers so every fixture projected concentric rings on stage. But is it wrong that through some sort of mis-directed nostalgia, I miss them?I still want to know what's on these Klieglights then...
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