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On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 23:46:40 +0000, Dave Liquorice wrote:

There should be at least one other in here who knows who uses those.
Along with brutes, bashers and inky dinks.

Perhaps you could throw some light on that Dave!

Are they lighting systems for the film industry?

They are types (mainly different sizes, AIUI) of filming lights. Other
things are flags (shades put in front of a non-filming light that cannot be
turned off during location filming) and barn doors (hinged plates attached
to the side of a light to restrict its beam); a snoot is a conical shade
placed on the front of the lamp to give a narrow circular beam.

What's the name for the huge cylindrical lights mounted on a crane to
provide wide-area "moonlight" lighting of a night scene?
https://s8.postimg.org/egkuxo0ud/Pict0558.jpg (close-up) and
https://s8.postimg.org/odvvqqnvp/Pict0591.jpg (high up on the crane)

https://s8.postimg.org/k4r5oksc5/Pict0592.jpg shows a flag - the black panel
on the RHS of the picture at the left side of the archway to stop the light
from the lamp above the archway (part of the Oxford college where this was
filmed) illuminating the actors with a greenish hue from the mercury
discharge lamp. The scene was lit entirely by the lights mentioned in the
previous paragraph; it was night time.

I took those pictures during the filming of an episode of Inspector Lewis.