Alki Elementary school in West Seattle is being torn down and replaced starting this summer. The school musical this year is being produced on the stage at the school this year, after being virtual or at the nearby high school theatre for many years. With my TV engineering background, I volunteered to do the lighting.
This is the super cool vintage 1954 lighting board. Everything in the auditorium can be controlled with the on off switches next to the glass fuses; if you leave that switch off and turn on the bank switch under the dimmer assign three position switch you can control individual banks with the giant powerstat dimmers at the bottom. The bottom three switches in the fuse panel send power to the dimmers and there is also a switch under the dimmers that shut them off.
This is an early example (I'm guessing) of an assignable lightiing board and it's a little hard to figure out because of all the switches but the 9 year old running it (short kids show, a few simple cues) is doing a really good job of it.
Except for a few missing knobs it's in good shape and everything works. Stage lighting consists of school supplied 75 watt equivalent LED's that I have put gels on for color. The rear grid has sockets that these screw into and three of these make a "bank" of lights. Front grid has two light banks plus three (two prong!) outlets that make another bank. I have plugged three 650's into the outlets and aimed them at the main character, dimming them to 60%. These 650's are converted Polaris 1K units with new sockets and lamps which hit the reflector reasonably well. In the auditorium there are 6 mid-century looking can lights with the 75 watt LED's in them. These are on dimmers (4 on 1 and 2 on 1) for control but run full.
Sorry for all the stickers and tape labels on the board but it's in use this weekend and then again one last time for the school auction thing. Blue tape covers up the knobs and switches for the house lights that have been converted to fluorescent and can't be dimmed any longer.
I'm guessing that this thing might have some parts or historical value when it's all done and that the demo company sees this and doesn't just pitch it.
This is the super cool vintage 1954 lighting board. Everything in the auditorium can be controlled with the on off switches next to the glass fuses; if you leave that switch off and turn on the bank switch under the dimmer assign three position switch you can control individual banks with the giant powerstat dimmers at the bottom. The bottom three switches in the fuse panel send power to the dimmers and there is also a switch under the dimmers that shut them off.
This is an early example (I'm guessing) of an assignable lightiing board and it's a little hard to figure out because of all the switches but the 9 year old running it (short kids show, a few simple cues) is doing a really good job of it.
Except for a few missing knobs it's in good shape and everything works. Stage lighting consists of school supplied 75 watt equivalent LED's that I have put gels on for color. The rear grid has sockets that these screw into and three of these make a "bank" of lights. Front grid has two light banks plus three (two prong!) outlets that make another bank. I have plugged three 650's into the outlets and aimed them at the main character, dimming them to 60%. These 650's are converted Polaris 1K units with new sockets and lamps which hit the reflector reasonably well. In the auditorium there are 6 mid-century looking can lights with the 75 watt LED's in them. These are on dimmers (4 on 1 and 2 on 1) for control but run full.
Sorry for all the stickers and tape labels on the board but it's in use this weekend and then again one last time for the school auction thing. Blue tape covers up the knobs and switches for the house lights that have been converted to fluorescent and can't be dimmed any longer.
I'm guessing that this thing might have some parts or historical value when it's all done and that the demo company sees this and doesn't just pitch it.