Power Requirements for 2000w lamp house

[John Eickhof]

Dicks last enterprise is known as LIT, lighting images technology and is still operated by his brother in law Bill, it is located in Riverside Cal. McColpin-Christie indeed made aircraft booster power supplies and the infamous C and C 'six phase'( 6 KW) rectifiers developed and used by Hughes Electronics on the early ' twin-lite' dual bulb vertical lamphouses, later to become the Christie 'gull wing' BSG series. the Hughes lamphouses were pink! The Christies were green and used a single vertical lamp. (it was Christies first model lamphouse) I used to service a pair of Hughes at the Keystone theatre in Reno, NV, I took it all out when Mann closed it up and rebuilt and sold the XLs to the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, Cal for projecting nitrate prints. I junked the Hughes stuff and sold the C and C rectifiers to a drive in Stockton, Cal. I still have a Gull Wing reflector in my museum. The photo shows a pair of 4 kw BBSG lamps behind E-7s at the Camelot showroom, (900 seats, 125 ft picture) at the Kings Castle hotel casino at N. Lake Tahoe NV. I worked that booth nightly for years, the booth was 70 feet wide with floor to ceiling glass and had 2 Strong super troupers and a 125 line century strand stage lighting board, we had many live shows in there! Seating was entirely 4-6 top horsehoe booths with cocktail waitresses serving drinks and snack bar items! Needless to say...my folks always watched movies there! Thank goodness the E7s had threading lights cause the booth had no lights on during show.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Yep! LIT is was... They always had great deals on gear. I even got a couple of XL's and Christie Mini-winds for the two down stairs theaters at Magic Lantern from Dick. Both those projectors have been sitting outside as Art Displays since I converted them to digital. There were LOTS of the early Christie gull wing lamp houses in Chicago. Practically every GC location there put them in,, it seemed all at once.

Picture shows a CFS 2kw I converted to a Christie Plenum kit. I am pretty sure this one was in Afton, WY at The Ford Theater.