Now through White Light Sales, regular Rainbow users are expanding their stocks to include the latest products, while smaller theatres are discovering the advantages that Rainbow scrollers can offer to visiting lighting designers. At the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the RSC's Paul Van Der Heyden and Vince Herbert have purchased forty-five new Rainbow 8" Pro and 10 new Rainbow 12" Pro colour scrollers to add to the stock at the RSC main house.
At the newly revitalised Liverpool Everyman, building development director Robert Longthorne, technical manager Jeff Salmon and chief electrician Rob Beamer have opted to add the latest technology to their lighting rig, including 30 Rainbow 8" Pro scrollers and eight Rainbow 12" Pro scrollers. White Light North in Yorkshire also supplied Rainbow Power Supply Units, 4-pin XLR cabling and 25-frame colour scrolls for both types of scroller.
These orders follow the successful delivery of a substantial collection of new lighting equipment to the refurbished Coliseum in London for English National Opera. White Light Sales supplied the Coliseum with their first scrollers, 20 Rainbow Pro 15" and 40 Rainbow Pro 8" units, back in 2000; now the company has expanded its permanent rig with a further 10 Rainbow 12" Pro units. Rainbows are also in use at many of the other leading theatre companies in London (including the Royal Opera House and the National Theatre) and around the UK.
These scrollers join the many Rainbows currently in use on shows supplied by White Light Hire, these including All's Well That Ends Well for the RSC at the Gielgud Theatre, Anything Goes, Tonight's the Night, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the new Queens Theatre production of Les Misérables.Now available in six sizes to fit lanterns from profiles such as the ETC Source Four up to rock-and-roll's 8-lites, the Rainbow Pro range can be fitted with scrolls of up to 33 frames. The scrollers allow easy set-up, calibration-free operation, mounting frames for accessories such as top-hats and barndoors and remote control of colour, fan speed, motor speed and reset through DMX512. A range of power supplies allows systems to be constructed for shows of any scale.
(Lee Baldock)
