<div><div dir="auto">I am surprised that no one has recommended Stanley McCandless’ A Method of Lighting The Stage. One of my favorite lighting books. ( I bought the 1939 2nd edition for .25 cents). </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 3:03 PM Jeff Forbes via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On May 2, 2020, at 12:00 PM, <a href="mailto:stagecraft-request@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft-request@theatrical.net</a> wrote:<br>
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> Many interesting books on stage lighting are now available in the<br>
> Emergency Internet Library hosted by <a href="http://archive.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">archive.org</a><br>
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> <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Stage+lighting%22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Stage+lighting%22</a><br>
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> Including Jean Rosenthal's The Magic of Light<br>
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Wow, okay. I had no idea these were online. And you can log in and borrow them!<br>
I had a copy of The Magic of Light that back around 1986 that I had to sell to Powell’s because I was broke. Was sad to see it go but I needed to eat more. <br>
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