Hendrickson Alan - Mechanical Design For The Stage - Paperback Travel Maps Author(s): Stroustrup Bjarne

Author(s): Stroustrup Bjarne

Label: DOT records

Barcode: 9780063240124

Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colossal figures and their intense often embattled relationship

Hendrickson Alan - Mechanical Design For The Stage - Paperback Travel Maps Author(s): Stroustrup BjarneBinding: Paperback Description: Scenic effects involving rotating turntables tracking stage wagons and the vertical movement of curtains and painted drops have become common in both Broadway and Regional theatre productions. The machines that drive these effects range from small pneumatic cylinders pushing loads of a few pounds an inch or two to 40 horsepower winches running multi ton scenery at speeds 6 feet per second or more. Usually this machinery