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Just smoke from the heat it coming out of the top. That's sh*t is bright asffffffffckkkkk

the electric humming sound intimidates me.that tells me DANGER.......IT IS MY PHOBIA ARC LOVE THE CONCEPT

Props to the guy who keeps them up and running ❤

Cinema projectors were arc lights, in my state projectioners had to have a licence. Even teachers showing movies in class had to have a licence. I think that was to reduce fires, perhaps also from the hot bulbs that were used. I don’t know if a licence is still required today. Apparently the training was not hard.

Great !! ❤ thank you!

Beautyfull lights ❤❤

Is this at panavision? I work there

Do the ww2 search lights work by the same principle?

How does it compare with those 100000 lumens LED chinese flashlights from AliExpress?

Guest appearance by Overhead Door.

Can we come close to replicating the quality of light with modern lights?

"STRIKING!!"

Made a lot of night location shooting possible.

These lamps can take an EMP spike in the grid in case of Carrington event or Miyake event ( solar CME in X10+ class Google it) or Nuke generated EMP ( if grid do not have weak spots like semiconductor bridges, thyristor/ igbt regulators, computers to control it instead of them analog bulb mercury thyrathron regulators....) .... Same to old mercury high pressure or sodium high pressure bulbs in hich dor short time seconds of o minutes support a 200% power spike! LED ( semiconductors ) cannot withstand those surges ( are even ESD sensitive that requires gloves and ESD decoupling)... Also electronics behind is sensitive to overheating ( Ecuator heat, +38°C >> ) or cold ( freezing under -20°C )

Страшные технологии.. но ксенон наверное пострашней тк колбы могли взрываться

Great demo, sir! Thanks for this video. Good question by the guy how long does it take to warm up. Carbons are instant warm, vs. HMI lamps take a little bit to warm up and get to color temperature. Definitely more cool mechanically than a 12K HMI. haha! I wonder if the light quality is better with this brute arc than with a 12 or 18K HMI?

I'd be worried that the fumes are not being vented.

Just found a second carbon rod made by General Electric Company here in the woods, they must date back to WW2 and were used in one of these carbon arc lights I assume; there was a lot going on here during WW2 where we live.Thanks for the video!

Go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Use search to find CLOSE GAP > Set Shift +G and save. After that you just need to select all the clips and press Shift+G. DONE!

That is so cool!!! My grandpa who was an electrician said the brightest thing he ever saw was a high voltage arc

Fantastic video and demonstration.

Rodrigo Prieto ducking for cover is hilarious. That guy always has the best attitude.

I'm coming from Joe Bob Briggs and The Last Drive-in where Michael Berryman is describing the difference in filming with Carbon Arc Lighting on the set of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest to 16mm out in the desert with Wes Craven on the set of The Hills Have Eyes

Wasnt the mole arch a R mouse?

I saw these in big studio set ups on a film in the 1990's. The light is amazing but changing out the rods is risky business. With today's OH&S laws these old lighting beasts would be seen as being too dangerous.

When you hear the term "lights, camera, action", that dates back to the earlier days of filmmaking when these lights were not turned on until just before the camera was ready to roll. As you can hear the guy in the video say the carbon rods only last for a certain limited amount of time so they tried to minimize the amount of time they were burning when the camera wasn't rolling. In those days you had one man per light so that they could quickly turn them on and shoot and then shut them off. These days lighting crews are a lot smaller because modern lights don't need the kind of constant attention, reloading, and adjusting that the arc lights did. A good carbon arc operator could adjust the speed at which the worm drive fed in the carbon rod so that it burned most efficiently and maintained proper spark gap during the burning process. having the carbons contact each other or feed too slowly until the gap was too big would negatively affect the quality of light.

These lights are mostly from before my time. Ive seen the rise of HMIs, and kino flos and now LED. Guys that could operate, change out carbons and properly adjust these beasties are a sying breed. I ran a carbon arc spot once, ONCE. They give out a quality of light that you just dont see today

Just spot Brandon the DP from LTT casually walking by

True Hero. Thanks!

Here because I heard these were used on Licorice Pizza.

Amazing!

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this is sexy dude... so coooooooool trick damn!!!!

nice hatz.

Nice 👍

I recently owned a Siemens-Schuckert carbon arc spot from around 1911 It is in a beautiful state of preservation and I'm curious whether it would still work.

Thank you for this! It saves so much time.

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I think they used these when filming Billy Jack and Easy Rider.

A ingenious mechanic jig permits to mantain an ideal shift of distance on carbon contacts as long as the material is progressivily left by the voltaic arc that is transformed into light...

Where do you get your carbon rods from ??? I know someone who has a old search light in there barn...

Pow nice blast of UV light.......they are literally getting blasted with UV wavelength.....good way to get a day out in the sun in just 5 minutes

Makes a great reading light!

I saw a wild Brandon Lee there.

I didn't hear what he said but what is the spin-a-ma-thing on the back? Is it a brush to strike an arc?

Isn't there a way to delete a single gap between a clip? I swore I used to clip the gap and hit delete... as of 2021 it no longer works. Help, anyone?

clever and neat, time saver

The light quality is unreal...

YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS!

PERFECT!