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A 1930s lighting control system, based on cinema organ technology. The operator could play light as a musician plays an organ.


The original 1935 Light Console in the Strand demonstration theatre

The Light Console was a unique and innovative lighting control system created by Fred Bentham for the Strand Electric Engineering Company in the mid-1930s. While it was not commercially very successful, it was of great significance in the development of lighting control, and challenged the ideas of the time about the role of light in theatre performance, and so how it should be controlled.

The light console used cinema organ technology to provide the control interface, and the cross-bar relay (developed for telephone exchanges) to make a logic switching system that controlled the motor-driven resistance dimmers.

17 Light Consoles were built in total, between 1935 and 1955.

 
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A 1930s lighting control system, based on cinema organ technology. The operator could play light as a musician plays an organ.
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