<div dir="ltr">Lighting History books, including the 'Art and Practice' ones, appear not to include how to sharp-focus Limelight, or even Gaslight, not just achieve that effect through modern instrumentation. Ex: how far back from the lip of the stage? How far off the Deck?<div>/s/ Richard</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:22 PM Gordon Nimmo-Smith via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">At the risk of giving away my origins, over in the UK the “must-read” book is the Stage Lighting Handbook by Francis Reid. Now in its 6<sup>th</sup> Edition, or at least that’s the copy I have. Earlier editions are also available in that
library, which give a neat idea of the evolution of lighting tech over the years.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 9:26 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Stagecraft Mailing List <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Jon Ares <<a href="mailto:jonares@arescreative.com" target="_blank">jonares@arescreative.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SML] Stage Lighting Books in the Emergency Internet Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The National Emergency Library is so cool! Indeed they do have Jean Rosenthal's book, and McCandless... and look at what other gem I found:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Hall's 1986 dissertation! :) Cool seeing an SML alumn's work here.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 4:32 PM Stephen Clear via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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