Secrets of scene painting and stage effects

Chapter 15: SUPPORTS FOR WINGS AND FLATS

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The book surveys the history and principles of theatrical scenery and provides practical instruction for creating stage backgrounds and effects. It explains perspective and painting techniques, paint mixing and application suited to distant audience viewing, and offers designs for typical scenes and appropriate furniture. It addresses stage construction from portable platforms to permanent sets, and details the mechanics of moving scenery, curtains, borders, and the use of power and safety measures. Illustrated, step‑by‑step guidance aims to equip amateurs and professionals with methods for producing convincing, durable scenic effects.

SUPPORTS FOR WINGS AND FLATS

These pieces should have eyes screwed in the backs for engaging hooked rods which are united to the stage and act as supports. One illustration shows the simple form of these braces, the other shows in working detail a patented extending brace which is designed to deal with any piece of scenery that may come to hand, for by loosening the thumb-screws at the joint the brace can be shortened or lengthened to enable the hooked top to catch in the fixed eye on the flat, etc., at any angle.