About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Vari-Lite, Stage lighting instrument, DMX512, Intelligent lighting, Dimmer, Lighting designer, Audience scanning, RDM, Stage pin connector, Lighting control console, Tony Award for Best Lighting Design, Gobo, Electrician, Color gel, Electronic Theatre Controls, Dichroic filter, Stanley McCandless, LED stage lighting, Lighting technician, Light plot, Spotlight operator, Lighting control system, D54, Color correction, Scrim, Master electrician, 0-10 V lighting control, FocusTrack, Three-point lighting, Altman Lighting Co., Catwalk, Key light, Lightwright, Clay Paky, Control booth, Limelight, Martin Light, Backlighting, Bobbinet, Light board operator, Architecture for Control Networks, Strand Lighting, High-key lighting, Cyclorama, SeaChanger Color Engine, Instrument Schedule, Skypan, Multicable, Cucoloris, DJ lighting, Compulite, AMX192, Distributed dimming, Non-dim circuit, Tree lights, Tension grid, Low-key lighting, Fade, Twofer, Diffusion filter, Godspot, Socapex, Liquid Sky, Ballyhoo, Art-Net, Color magazine, Channel hookup, Pantograph, Special, Running lights, Bastard. Excerpt: VARI*LITE is the brand name of one of the first automated, variable-colour stage lighting systems to be created. Their intelligent lighting fixtures are commonly used in theatre, concerts, television, film and corporate events. The origins of Vari-Lite date to the late 1960s, when college friends Jack Calmes and Rusty Brutsche played together in a Texas-based blues band. They built a sound system for their shows which was of such quality, that other acts asked to rent it from them. In March 1970 Calmes and Brutsche, together with sound engineer Jack Maxson, incorporated Showco, with the intention of hiring sound systems to regional rock concerts. The company initially operated two sound systems and two trucks from Maxson's garage. The com...
