Vintage Lighting Wanna guess...

[Scenemaster60]

Does anyone know what this stuff is?
I actually do and have been on the hunt for a kit like this for more than a few years.
I found it in a toolbox at a High School where no one has any idea what this is…
The lights they were used in there are long gone.

 

[JJBerman]

Looks like giant gobo's to me.

 

[gary smith]

I have used radiator grill many times for gobos in low budget shows. They can be quite effective. Also if cut to the right size you don't need a gobo holder. Oh and they last forever in a 360Q

 

[derekleffew]

Hi-Tek for 1965! (Before premade patterns were available BTW.)

Looks like they had almost the entire set.

 

[ColdFusion13]

We have quite a few of those here at my theatre. Have actually used them a time or two in the past year.

 

[gary smith]

Anyone got a pic of the insruments? I may have used them when i first arrived in the country in 1990.

 

[Scenemaster60]

Here you go.

 

[weivreenltesss]

Drain covers? lol

 

[ship]

Cool!

 

[JohnD]

I can just see it now," NEW FROM APOLLO-RetroGobos"-for those Klassy Kliegl looks.

 

[GreyWyvern]

We already have some that are close to some of those...

 

[gary smith]

Here you go.

Thanks for the pics. Yep they're the ones. They were aweful compared to a 360Q. Thankfully they were long gone before I could compare them to a S4. Even the thought makes me chuckle

 

[gary smith]

Hmm seemed to have screwed up that post! Please forgive me as it is only my third post.
The purpose was to thank Scenemaster60 for bringing back memories of a theatre and time in my life. Having just arrived in the USA I had never seen these or many other of your instruments in my life. I was 35 at the time. Australia, at the time, was snobbishly Strand.

 

[venuetech]

Perforated sheet metal cut to make gobos. used in the old Steam Leko's with the chimney on top. (incandescent radial ERS)