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klieg Cinemat.|kliːg|
Also kleig and with capital initial.
[f. the name of two brothers, A. T. and J. H. Kliegl, who invented it in the U.S.]
In full, klieg light. a. Orig., a kind of arc lamp invented for use as a studio light; hence, any powerful electric light used in film-making, or in television.
1925Movie Mag. Nov. 57/1 The scene in a motion picture studio is eternally the same. It doesn't matter what difference there is in the set which raises its skeleton wings towards the Kleigs. 1927U. Sinclair Oil! xiv. 355 The kleigs glare upon them, and a dozen moving picture cameras grind. 1931A. Nadell Projecting Sound Pict. xiv. 250 Klieg (arc) lights are passé; they made too much noise; 1,000-watt incandescents are used. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 237 The sunshine, vivid as a Kleig light, revealed every wrinkle in his melancholy..face. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety ii. 39 The polychrome Oval With its kleig lights and crowd engineers. 1951‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids viii. 141 At the first blink it was as dazzling as a klieg light. 1957New Yorker 13 July 21/1 My brother and I [sc. Mr. John H. Kliegl] invented the klieg light around 1911—the first practical light for taking motion pictures indoors. It projected a beam, by means of carbons, that emitted a light of high actinic power. 1967Economist 7 Jan. 40/2 Inaugurated in a blaze of familiar kleig lights. 1969Rolling Stone 28 June 13 The kleig lights shine for a mercifully brief moment upon an aging cosmetic face.
b. klieg eyes, an eye condition caused by exposure to very bright light, characterized by watering and conjunctivitis. Hence klieg-eyed adj.
1923Sci. Amer. Oct. 243/1 The burning of the eyeball by the ultra-violet rays... This malady appears so freely among motion-picture actors..that a name, ‘Kleig eyes’, has been coined for it. 1941Amer. Cinematographer Dec. 589 The ultra-violet glare from those unshielded arcs..literally sunburned the actors' eyeballs and created the dread malady, ‘kleig eye’. 1973Rolling Stone 30 Aug. 38 Most folks got back to San Clemente sated, klieg-eyed and tired. |