Quiz E (5) Flashcards
Cut-line
A line used to hold the asbestos curtains in open position.
Fireline
Cyclorama fly
U shape expanse of light blue canvas enclosing the acting area on three sides. raised and lowered by the counter weight system. Sky effects.
sUperman can fly in the sky
Cyclorama Trip
Like a cyc fly only a cyclorama is rigged so that it will fold as it is raised. This requires less grid height.
rigged trip
Cyclorama Linnebach
Like a cyc fly or trip, but operates differently. A Linnbeach is suspended from a curved truck and moves horizontally. It is named after the investor Adolph Linnebach.
Cyc
Cyclorama or large backdrop
Designer’s plan
Sealed Mechanical drawings for exact representation of a setting. Include the ground plans, front elevations detail and sightline drawings.
Exact
Designer’s sketch
A usually colored perspective drawing that showcases a proposed setting as how it will appear to someone in seated halfway back in the auditorium.
proposed
Detail Drawings
Mechanical drawings made o a large scale, showing the top, front, and side views of a 3D subject.
dramarama
Diagonal brace
A brace made of 1’ by 2’ lumber, placed at an angle between the stile and rail of a wide flat to strengthen the frames.
lumer brace
Dickybird
Actor who can sing and dance
birds sings
Dimmer
A device usually designed used to exploit electrical resistance – ‘dim up’ & “dim down’
dimmer tool
Dolly
A small low platform mounted on wheels or a single roller; used in moving heavy objects
dolly cart
Dome plaster
Similar in shape and use to a cyclorama but made of steel screening and covered with plaster. cannot be shifted–can partially or completely enclose the acting area on three sides
Double luff
rope and pulleys 4 to1
l(ove) four
Double whip
rope and pulleys 2 to 1
whip-two
