Samoiloff effect
type: Item
description: colour tricks using lights of complementary colours. By using red and green lights and corresponding colours in set, costume and make-up, he was able to transform the look of a scene instantly.
alternative label: Samoiloff Lighting Scheme
Type of information: method
Field: lighting and projection
see also: lighting effect
see also: complementary color
inventor: Adrian Samoiloff
context: colour tricks using lights of complementary colours. By using red and green lights and corresponding colours in set, costume and make-up, he was able to transform the look of a scene instantly.His tricks with coloured lighting were originally seen at the London Hippodrome in 1921 in a variety show called ‘The Peep-Show’, in a scene called ‘The Valley of Echoes’, advertised by the wonderful newspaper billing ‘Staged with Spectrum Analysis by ADRIAN SAMOILOFF’ (The Times, September 16 1921). His ‘Samoiloff Lighting Scheme’ led to battens being made by Strand Electric.
Source URL: samoiloff-effect-colour
Canon document public ID: 1335
Canon image ID: 2568