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Without question there is a full-blown renaissance
of interest in scenery painting techniques in progress, although few would admit to any parallel
diminished concern for use of dimensional surface
textures or for use of projections.
Display trade and performing arts firms in this
country still fail, by and large, to see the long-range
commercial benefit in helping their customers use
their products efficiently through publication of
technical literature. Major woodworking tool manufacturers, by contrast, produce useful applications
literature and then frequently sell it to ready
customers in spite of the fact that it is heavily larded
with discussion and pictures of their own tools and

accessories. Who should know more about spotlight
maintenance and repair than a spotlight manufacturer?
There is a continuing disjointure of information
lines between users of similar information. Perhaps
the term "scenography" to label what we do, needs
replacement by a broader and better one to embrace
as well display crafts, museum, recreation!
amusement park or industrial show technology.
Certainly we do not need a new organization, a new
magazine or a new convention. But perhaps we do
need to use existing lines of information exchange
more effectively: we're all in similar businesses
together.
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Corning Glass Works
Corning, New York

Kopp Glass, Incorporated
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dimensional Plastics Corporation
Hialeah, Florida

3 A Leitz IIA photocopier was used, which includes a Leica
MDa(M4) 35mm. camera, designed for copying documents.

DATA SHEET

To facilitate the understanding of the overlay technique, and to illustrate the variables open to the designer interedted in overlay
research and use, the following data table was prepared. The photograhic data (film type, speed, f-stop, exposure time) was omitted, for
it showed no considerable variation when compared to non-overlay photographic data.
Texture: : Up indicates that the textured side of the glass overlay is toward the camera lens; down indicates that the textured side of the
overlay is away from the camera, toward the subject to be treated.
Figure

Image

Material

Glass Co.

Texture

Identification

1
2

Poster
Line
Drawing

Sun Valley
Sun Valley

Up
Up

Printing

Paper
Watercolor
paper
Paper

Kopp

Printing

Paper

Dimensional Plastics

Printing
Printing
Printing
Comic Page
Life
Airplane
Poster
Flowers

Paper
Paper
Paper
Paper
Paper
Paper
Paper
Paper

S.R. Amtuf
Factrolite
Amtuf
(square)
Spread
(round)
Krinkleglass:
Green 100
Yellow 100
Plexiglas
Spread
(Unidentified)
Burlap Amtuf
Luxlite Amtuf
Factrolite Amtuf
Burlap Amtuf
Plexiglas

7
8
9
10
11
12

Index

Kopp
Kopp
Sun Valley
Sun Valley
Sun Valley
Sun Valley
Sun Valley

Up
Down
Up
Up
Up
Up
Up
Up

Theatre Design and Technology

October 1973-Summer 1975, Numbers 34-41

1973 ARTICLES
"Large Scale Hot Knife for Sculpting Linear Styrofoam Forms." Frank Silbertstein. 35:7-13. Dec. 1973.
"Marquee Flasher for Sweet Charity." Robert Shook. 35:14-19. Dec. 1973.
"The Minskoff Theatre - One Astor Plaza." Der Scutt. 34:7-11. Oct. 1973.
"A Portfolio of New Ohio Theatres." W. Alan Kirk. 35:20-26. Dec. 1973.
"Spectrophotometric Comparisons of the Effects of Stage Lighting on Newly Developed Expendable Color Media." Tony Courtade.
34:17-27. Oct. 1973.
"Speech Acoustics for the Theatre." David I. Klepper. 34:12-16. Oct. 1973.
"USITT Recommended Symbols Standards for Lighting Equipment." Fred M. Wolff. 35:27-28. Dec. 1973.
"A Way In.'' Margaret Ezekiel. 34:28-33. Oct. 1973.
BOOK REVIEWS
Deutsche Theaterbauten Bis Zum Zweiten Weltkrieg. Typologisch-Historische Documentation Einer Baugattung. Harold Zielske.
Selbstverlag der Gesellschaft fur Theatergeschichte, 1971. (Schriften der Gesellschaft fur Theatergeschil<.hte, Bc. 65). 307 pp. Robert
W. Cowden, reviewer. 35:36. Dec. 1973.
Essentials of Stage Lighting. Hunton D. Sellman. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972; 214 pp. Bruce W. McMullan, reviewer.
35:34. Dec. 1973.
New Theatres in Britain. Frederick Bentham. London: Rank Strand Electric, 1970; 141 pp. Brian Arnott, reviewer (mislabeled Lane
Drury). 35:34-35. Dec. 1973.

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