On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:06:51 -0000, NY wrote:

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.

Yep,

Red Head - tungsten halogen about 500 to 800 W. approx 6" dia with a
hemispherical glass fibre(?) back which is red in colour.

Blonde - grown up Red Head, tungsten halogen 2.5 kW approx 12 " dia
rear casing a yellowy orange.

Inky Dink - small tungsten light, 100 W, quite well controlled beam.
Often used or put a glint in the actors eye without altering the real
lighting.

Brute - The larger HMI (Hydrargyrum Medium-arc Iodide) gas discharge
luminaires. Daylight colur temperature 10+ kW or so. Fresnel lens
approx 3' dia. ******* things, weigh a lot, shove out a tremendous
amount of light, enough light to compete with direct midday, mid
summer, sunlight, but also shove out a tremendous amount of heat they
might be about 10% effcient, ie a 10 kW brute produces 9 kW of
heat...

Basher - Bit like a Read Head, probably battery powered and on a
short pole as a "Hand Basher".

Flag - Something that stops light going where it shouldn't that isn't
part of a luminaire. Normally black cloth over a metal frame witha
spigot to fit into a lighting stand to clamp.

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

Donno, but I'm TV and I think Lewis was shot with real film. If so it
would be using a drama "film crew" and film DOP and thus film lights
rather than TV. Both the cradles and the mount they are on appear to
be motorised. TV would tend to have a cherry picker and send a man up
in the cage to set the llights, he may or may not then stay up there.

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Cheers
Dave.