User contributions
From CanonBase
- 16:53, 6 January 2025 diff hist +344 Samoiloff effect (Q37399) Changed claim: context (P47): colour tricks using lights of complementary colours. By using red and green lights and corresponding colours in set, costume and make-up, he was able to transform the look of a scene instantly.His tricks with coloured lighting were originally seen at the London Hippodrome in 1921 in a variety show called ‘The Peep-Show’, in a scene called ‘The Valley of Echoes’, advertised by the wonderful newspaper billing ‘Staged with Spectrum Analysis by ADR...
- 16:53, 6 January 2025 diff hist +975 Samoiloff effect (Q37399) Created claim: context (P47): colour tricks using lights of complementary colours. By using red and green lights and corresponding colours in set, costume and make-up, he was able to transform the look of a scene instantly.His tricks with coloured lighting were originally seen at the London Hippodrome in 1921 in a variety show called ‘The Peep-Show’, in a scene called ‘The Valley of Echoes’, advertised by the wonderful newspaper billing ‘Staged with Spectrum Analysis by ADRIA...
- 16:51, 6 January 2025 diff hist +425 Samoiloff effect (Q37399) Created claim: inventor (P267): Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398)
- 16:51, 6 January 2025 diff hist +421 Samoiloff effect (Q37399) Created claim: see also (P22): lighting effect (Q3138)
- 16:50, 6 January 2025 diff hist +415 Samoiloff effect (Q37399) Created claim: Field (P19): lighting and projection (Q7)
- 16:50, 6 January 2025 diff hist +419 Samoiloff effect (Q37399) Created claim: Type of information (P11): method (Q431)
- 16:49, 6 January 2025 diff hist +484 N Samoiloff effect (Q37399) Created a new Item: Samoiloff effect, colour tricks using lights of complementary colours. By using red and green lights and corresponding colours in set, costume and make-up, he was able to transform the look of a scene instantly.
- 16:42, 6 January 2025 diff hist +408 Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398) Created claim: Source URL (P64): https://www.theatrecrafts.com/pages/home/archive/people/adrian-samoiloff/
- 16:42, 6 January 2025 diff hist +355 Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398) Created claim: Internal image (P24): Adrian_Samoiloff.jpg
- 16:41, 6 January 2025 diff hist +94 N File:Adrian Samoiloff.jpg source https://www.theatrecrafts.com/pages/home/archive/people/adrian-samoiloff/ current
- 16:39, 6 January 2025 diff hist +423 Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398) Created claim: Has worked in (P227): Hippodrome [London] (Q8478)
- 16:39, 6 January 2025 diff hist +421 Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398) Created claim: country of citizenship (P83): Russia (Q4898)
- 16:38, 6 January 2025 diff hist +415 Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398) Created claim: Field (P19): lighting and projection (Q7)
- 16:38, 6 January 2025 diff hist +417 Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398) Created claim: Type of information (P11): Person (Q15)
- 16:38, 6 January 2025 diff hist +319 N Adrian Samoiloff (Q37398) Created a new Item: Adrian Samoiloff
- 10:22, 6 January 2025 diff hist +423 fairy lights (Q37394) Created claim: Source (P63): Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) current
- 10:22, 6 January 2025 diff hist -400 fairy lights (Q37394) Removed claim: Source URL (P64): https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/
- 10:21, 6 January 2025 diff hist +512 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: Date of death (P31): 27 May 1914 current
- 10:21, 6 January 2025 diff hist +512 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: date of birth (P30): 31 October 1828
- 10:19, 6 January 2025 diff hist +403 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: mentions (P78): Thomas Edison (Q508)
- 10:19, 6 January 2025 diff hist +407 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: mentions (P78): Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397)
- 10:19, 6 January 2025 diff hist +512 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: Date of death (P31): 3 April 1901 current
- 10:18, 6 January 2025 diff hist +512 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: date of birth (P30): 3 May 1844
- 10:18, 6 January 2025 diff hist +419 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: country of citizenship (P83): United Kingdom (Q407)
- 10:18, 6 January 2025 diff hist +355 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: Image of WikiCommons (P2): RichardD'OylyCarte.jpg
- 10:17, 6 January 2025 diff hist +341 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: Wikidata source (P16): Q953440
- 10:17, 6 January 2025 diff hist +423 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: Has worked in (P227): Savoy Theatre [London] (Q8188)
- 10:16, 6 January 2025 diff hist +417 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: Field (P19): Theatre management (Q94)
- 10:16, 6 January 2025 diff hist +417 Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created claim: Type of information (P11): Person (Q15)
- 10:16, 6 January 2025 diff hist +320 N Richard D'Oyly Carte (Q37397) Created a new Item: Richard D'Oyly Carte, Owner of the Savoy theatre
- 10:15, 6 January 2025 diff hist +419 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: country of citizenship (P83): United Kingdom (Q407)
- 10:14, 6 January 2025 diff hist +407 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: mentions (P78): Joseph Swan (Q37396)
- 10:14, 6 January 2025 diff hist +341 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: Wikidata source (P16): Q315422
- 10:13, 6 January 2025 diff hist +358 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: Image of WikiCommons (P2): WP Joseph Wilson Swan.jpg
- 10:12, 6 January 2025 diff hist +423 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: occupation (P32): inventor (Q30485)
- 10:12, 6 January 2025 diff hist +419 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: Field (P19): General technology (Q342)
- 10:11, 6 January 2025 diff hist +417 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created claim: Type of information (P11): Person (Q15)
- 10:11, 6 January 2025 diff hist +66 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Added [en] alias: Swan, Joseph
- 10:11, 6 January 2025 diff hist +66 Joseph Swan (Q37396) Added [en] description: inventor
- 10:11, 6 January 2025 diff hist +310 N Joseph Swan (Q37396) Created a new Item: Joseph Swan
- 10:07, 6 January 2025 diff hist +423 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: mentions (P78): fairy lights (Q37394)
- 10:07, 6 January 2025 diff hist +389 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: Canon image id (P74): Fairy_lights_-_Press_Office_-_Newcastle_University.pdf
- 10:06, 6 January 2025 diff hist +512 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: Publication date (P40): 18 December 2017
- 10:06, 6 January 2025 diff hist +408 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: Publisher (txt) (P100): Newcastle university
- 10:06, 6 January 2025 diff hist +400 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: Source URL (P64): https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2017/12/fairylights/
- 10:05, 6 January 2025 diff hist +403 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: Field (P19): General technology (Q342)
- 10:05, 6 January 2025 diff hist +419 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: Field (P19): Costume, hair and make-up (Q195)
- 10:05, 6 January 2025 diff hist +772 Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created claim: Type of information (P11): source (Q98)
- 10:05, 6 January 2025 diff hist +258 N Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed (Q37395) Created a new Item: Dramatic origin of the fairy light revealed
- 10:03, 6 January 2025 diff hist +1,336 fairy lights (Q37394) Created claim: context (P47): Dating back 135 years, it was at the Savoy Theatre in London that the term ‘fairy lights’ was first coined.Opened in 1881, the Savoy was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity, fitted out with 1,200 incandescent light bulbs created by North East inventor Sir Joseph Swan.A year later, Swan was commissioned by the theatre’s owner - Richard D'Oyly Carte - to create miniature lights to adorn the dresses of the lead f...
