Design of Lighting Control Consoles Used in British Television Studios

Frederick P. Bentham

In Great Britain, lighting control has assumed great importance both as an instrument of dramatic expression and for monitoring picture quality. The lighting supervisor (director) often works the control directly without the intervention of an electrician. The quality of automatic memory derived from the inertia of electromechanical dimmer systems has simplified the design of these controls and in consequence has caused many users in Britain to be reluctant to adopt all-electric forms of dimmer such as the thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier which suggest multipreset networks.

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Published
1961-10
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Original Research
DOI
10.5594/J13762