Fantome in the Press - November 1999

In September 1999, at the PLASA Show, WWG announced the development of a fully automated version of Robert Juliat's 2.5kW HMI luminaire to fulfil a requirement at The Royal Opera House, London.

Attributes include: Articulate framing, remote iris, automated zoom/focus, scrolling gel plus orbital beam positioning.

In November 1999, WWG reached an agreement with Robert Juliat to develop Fantôme for them as a commercially available product. Fantôme can next be seen at LDI'99.

Total Production, October 1999, Page 54 - 'Fantôme of the Opera'

Lighting + Sound International, October 1999, Page 92 - '.....but the main talking point had to be a new luminaire - the Fantôme .....

Entertainment Design, November 1999, Page 68 - 'Phantom FOR the Opera.

Entertainment Design, November 1999, Pages 59/60 - 'One of the most interesting products on the show floor was the prototype of Le Fantôme .....' *

Live!, November 1999, Page 37 - 'Fantôme of the Opera Makes Appearance'

* Note there is a major error in this piece, the erratum in the next edition of Entertainment Design (and Lighting Dimensions?) will read as follows - ' Editor's note: In our 1999 PLASA show report, we mistakenly announced that Le Fantôme, a prototype created for the Royal Opera House by Wynne Willson Gottelier and seen at the Decoupe stand, included a Transtechnik yoke. Actually, because Le Fantôme has WWG's unique orbital, global positioning head attached to a Robert Juliat 2.5kW HMI zoom profile, it does not need an automated yoke. On the other hand, the Royal Opera House also developed another fixture which uses the Transtechnik yoke with a Robert Juliat 2.5kW tungsten PC. Our apologies for combining the two fixtures.'

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