Film Unit Makes Light Work of a Difficulty
THE NATIONAL FILM UNIT has several times in the past had co-operation in the production of its films from the NZBS, and last week the Unit had a chance to return the compliment and repay the debt. On the afternoon of the orchestra! concert with Colin Horsley in the Wellington Town Hall last week, the Film Unit was asked by the NZBS if it would lend its own generating plant to provide light in the Town Hall, there being a power-cut in the city covering the period when the audience would be gathering and the orchestra ' assembling. The Unit promptly agreed, its generator was installed in Mercer Street beside the hall, and when the lights went out elsewhere the building was illuminated by 14,000 watts of specially-generated electricity, from seven lamps of 2,000 watts each. Four of these lamps were in the main hall, the light being diffused on to the ceiling to avoid glare, two in the main foyer, and one in the corridor leading, to the dressing rooms. Thanks to the co-operation of one Government department with another, a difficult problem was solvedand solved so effectively that, according to several onlookers, the occasion had some of the appearance of "a Hollywood premiere." —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 14
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212Film Unit Makes Light Work of a Difficulty New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 14
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