Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( Volume: 63, Issue: 4, October 1954)

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History of Motion-Picture Studio Lighting

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Publisher: SMPTE
Doc Type: Journal Article
Article Type: research-article
Abstract: Historically, the use of artificial light in the motion-picture industry has followed a number of recurring cycles. The use of various types of lighting equipment has not always been a matter of evolution. On several occasions there has been a revolution in which carbon arcs were moved down from the top place by incandescent tungsten lamps and vice versa. The influences behind these cyclic changes were the advent of panchromatic film, the arrival of sound, the application of three-color photography, and finally an economic factor which resulted in a major change in the spectral sensitivity of all color films. During these various cycles, illuminants such as mercury tubes, fluorescent tubes and even mercury combined with other gases were experimented with, or used to some extent, but the main artificial light sources were carbon-arc lamps and incandescent tungsten lamps, used separately or in combination, and with one source or the other usually in a dominant position.
Publication Date: 1954-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/J14556
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J14556
Author(s): Charles W. Handley

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