amature theatre

I found some pictures from the seventies of our old theatre accomodation. When it was built it was very advanced for it's time. The outside of the building remained pretty intact. I think there used to be a flag pole where the balcony is.


The theatre is under the roof, the stage is in the tower. All of this is gone now...

30 years ago

In 1978 it looked liked this.

The picture was shot from the balcony where a nice control room was built.

lights

Putting up the fixtures was not for the faint of heart!
Mounted to the ceiling you can see the horn speaker for the intercom, it doubled up as a microphone.

The man in the picture is not me, rather it is the man that a few years later would drag me in to this.
The console consisted of 24 dimmer circuits designed for 1kW load, in the back you see the patch panel. The patch cords were male/male, you wouldn't get away with that nowadays.

Some acrobacy was required to operate the console since there was no preset register.

The fixtures are no longer in use but we still have them.


These where ADB PC spotlights fitted with a 500W T1 lamp (without built in mirror). The horn in the background is the very one that was fitted on the ceiling.
This model has no mirror, the mirror is in the bulb.


This a classic, the fitted lamp is not the original one.



T1 lamp in original box.



sound

I have no exact memories of what equipment was in use at the time. All of the equipment we now take for granted was very expensive then and certainly not off-the-shelf goods. A lot of equipment was still DIY.
I think there was nothing more then a taperecorder with built-in amplifier.

Could have been this grundig:

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