When did the stage lights come from?
Early plays used to have open-air or semi outdoor performances, with sunlight as their source of light. But as the show moved into the room or at night, the stage lights began to appear. According to written records, after 1102, Chinese of the Northern Song Dynasty Bianliang, during the Lantern Festival Show "opera", stands downstairs with Fang Mulei stage on both sides of the Taiwan, the Duo a ball hanging upstairs, big Zhang Yu, this is China rafter combustion candle, artificial light at the beginning. Such as outdoor performances in Europe in the sixteenth Century night, with a rope made of resin impregnated lamp as light source.
The Englishman, H. de Lamont, invented the lime lamp to produce daylight or moonlight light on the stage. In 1870 the British used lime lamp as the light, and then to paint coating on the glass to get lime light shade effect. In 1846, The Paris Opera House used arc light source for the first time, then made the color silk filter with electric arc, and created the stage image of the whole process from sunset to sunrise with 5 continuous lighting changes. In the early twentieth Century, after the advent of the tungsten filament bulb, the spotlight was provided for the stage, which provided favorable conditions for the stage space and the stage atmosphere. The invention of dimmer, the unified management of lighting system and the use of color filter have enhanced the expressive power of stage lighting. In 1920 the Italian M., Tuni designed a soft light reflection system, from the use of silkThe light reflected from the arc to mimic the natural expression of light and color sky illusion.
In the 15~16 century, the Italy landscape architect carried out tests on light illumination. In the early seventeenth Century, Italians performed various tests to control the sudden darkness of lights during the show. And French classical performance has also done how to show the changes of day and night time. Since eighteenth Century, the practice of putting out the auditorium lights and leaving only the stage lights has become routine. In 1755 the Dresden Opera Theatre "Yeao", on the stage of 8000 branches of light candles. The light source has changed rapidly since nineteenth Century. The first theatre London 1808 on the gas lamp. Because the gas lamp can be used to control the pipeline, and can be light and shade changes, so as to promote.
