| 单词 | klieg light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasklieg light a. In full klieg light. Originally: a kind of arc lamp invented for use as a studio light. Hence: any powerful electric light used in film-making, or in television. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > arc light > types of Jablochkoff1877 Pointolite1916 klieg1925 1925 Movie 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. 1927 U. Sinclair Oil! xiv. 355 The kleigs glare upon them, and a dozen moving picture cameras grind. 1931 A. Nadell Projecting Sound Pict. xiv. 250 Klieg (arc) lights are passé; they made too much noise; 1,000-watt incandescents are used. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 237 The sunshine, vivid as a Kleig light, revealed every wrinkle in his melancholy..face. 1947 W. H. Auden 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. 1957 New 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. 1967 Economist 7 Jan. 40/2 Inaugurated in a blaze of familiar kleig lights. 1969 Rolling Stone 28 June 13 The kleig lights shine for a mercifully brief moment upon an aging cosmetic face. < as lemmas |
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