Friday, January 14, 2011

Lighting Education-Mole Richardson

I have been lucky enough to have spent quite a bit of time at Mole Richardson, assisting at lighting classes and helping light special events such as film and camera tests, ASC/SOC events, etc.  Larry Parker has been doing an amazing job at educating film students as to how to properly do power distribution and pretty much all elements of lighting a motion picture, all for free, for years.   And the Mole Richardson lights are real things of beauty: built to last three lifetimes.  There is a whole generation of skilled electricians and gaffers out there who have cut their teeth at the Mole Stage.

They have now started to share some of that knowledge online:



I can't wait for the video on operating a carbon arc, my favorite lamp.

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