Light Console
type: Item
description: A 1930s lighting control system, based on cinema organ technology. The operator could play light as a musician plays an organ.
subclass of: manual control console
Type of information: equipment
Field: lighting and projection
Web: light-console
Web: strand-light-console
was significant equipment for: Drury Lane Theatre Royal [London, UK]
was significant equipment for: London Opera House [London]
was significant equipment for: Royal Festival Hall [London]
was significant equipment for: The London Coliseum [London]
was significant equipment for: Adelphi Theatre [iii, London]
was significant equipment for: Her Majesty's Theatre [London]
was significant equipment for: Arnold Szyfman Polski Theatre [Warsaw]
was significant equipment for: Palace Theatre [Manchester]
was significant equipment for: London Palladium [London]
Manufacturer: Strand Electric & Engineering Co
Link to internal Canonbase page: strand_light_console
First use date: 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z