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Author Topic: Did Klieg make lamphouses? John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-09-2005 10:26 PM                        Can someone confirm that Klieg once made lamphouses for film projection? An elderly projectionist described a high intensity lamphouse, with the positive carbon facing the film. It had a condenser lense, and operated at 110 amps. He thought it was made by Klieg. The lamps were the original ones in a theatre that opened in 1920 where I live (Okmulgee, OK - Hippodrome - 1628 seats). What would be the largest screen that this lamp would be suitable for?  |  IP: Logged David M. Dorn Film Handler Posts: 35 From: Hartford, CT USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 04-09-2005 10:34 PM                     The Recent Additions page now has the National Carbon Bulletins available for download. The condenser type lamps are descibed but I don't recall any specific reference to Klieg. Word of warning the download is about 30mb. David  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-09-2005 11:22 PM                        Condenser lens optics with the positive facing the aperture sounds like GENARCO. Their Metro followspots used such a lamphouse.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-10-2005 12:04 AM                     Indeed! About 1988 was the last time I was in the original upper booth of the Palace Theatre in Chicago. There was one lonely Kleig lamphouse sitting on a heavy duty Simplex base in the center of three ports... no machine mounted.... it would have been the machine that was used for the projecting the Cinerama prologs and trouble reels. The Kleig lamphouse I saw looked like a shorter version of the Peerless Hy-Candescent with an angled down back side. I definately remember looking at the makers tag on it. There were also two Kleig follow spots at the far end of the booth as well which had similar but not identical lamphouses on them. Those two followspots were the largest I've ever seen. I was tipped off by a friend that worked for GTE at the time and was running phone lines in the Palace that there was alot of film all over the booth floor. I found a half dozen Cinerama prologs... two copies each of three different prologs and one trouble reel. Mark  |  IP: Logged John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-10-2005 10:06 PM                        Thanks, everyone. I believe the man's recollection of the lamphouse is pretty good. The National Carbon bulletins are interesting, and confirmed that up to 110 amps was used on early high-intensity arcs. BTW, I'm writing an article for MARQUEE magazine about the Hippodrome, where the Klieg lamphouses were used. Title is "Biography of a Small-Town Hippodrome."  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-12-2005 12:55 AM                     When did Kleigl cease operations?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-12-2005 08:31 AM                     Kleigl was sort of still in business under the banner of RKLighting and they carried parts for dimmers control systems and spotlight  |  IP: Logged John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-12-2005 02:51 PM                        Is "Kleigl" the proper brand name for the lamphouses? rather than "Kleig?"  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-12-2005 08:27 PM                     Kleigl Bros. is what is on the 3 pieces we have. We have one fresnel that we have relamped to use an HX754, it originally had a 1000 watt mogul base bulb. The other two pieces are cast iron base ordinary floor lamps  |  IP: Logged John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-14-2005 09:05 PM                        Bill, are you by any chance with the Byrd? If so, what's going on with it?  |  IP: Logged

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