Theater design. History of theatrical lighting

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Professor of Lighting Design at the University of California Irvine, Jamyi Lee Smith, explores the history of theatrical lighting, tracing the development of lighting technology from the Greek and Roman eras through the era of electricity. Smith discusses the use of natural light, candles, chandeliers, and gas lighting to explicate not only the advances that lighting technology has seen, but to showcase how lighting design has been instrumental to the actor's performances, the scripting of plays, and the development of theatre.

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54 minutes

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Alexander Street

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