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A 3 page research paper that, first of all, gives a brief history of theater lighting and then discusses the function and kinds of lighting used in modern theaters. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the sun was the first principal source of lighting in the field of stagecraft. The Romans were the first to move plays indoors. By 1545, Sabastiano Serlio had introduced the
effects of colored light by placing bottles filled with colored liquids in front of candles (red wine or ammonium chloride in a copper vessel for blue) (Trumbull, 2002). In 1573,
Inigo Jones brought back to England the concepts for the Proscenium Arch and footlights (Trumbull, 2002). Candles were the rule for stage lighting until 1783 when the kerosene lamp was
introduced in France (Trumbull, 2002). Limelight became widely used by 1816. Invented by Henry Drummond, an American, it was produced by heating a piece of lime with a flame of
oxygen and hydrogen (Trumbull, 2002). It had a greenish tint, but produced a light bright enough to create the first spotlight for Paris Opera houses (Trumbull, 2002). In 1881,
the Savoy Theatre in England became the first to use electric lighting (Trumbull, 2002), which one might say ushers in the modern era in theatre lighting. Modern lighting methods
are founded, first of all, on the basic idea that the lighting designer has a "full and complete" knowledge of precisely is to be accomplishing with lighting in a particular
play. The lighting designer for a production must fully understand the physical of light and the psychology of human perception and vision (Williams, 1999). For example, a single lighting fixture
can have a very different effect when used to illuminate an actor against a black or dark setting as compared to when the same light is used to illuminate an
actor against a light setting (Williams, 1999). The various lights available are the "palette" with which a lighting designer will create effects on stage. Therefore, a lighting designer must
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