American Cinematographer - August 1983 - 34

Musco mobile

light¬

ing units designed
originally for tempo¬
rary lighting of sta¬

CW.owans

diums made their

feature debut

on

ALL

THE RIGHT MOVES.

Adger

MUSCO
LIGHTING
FOR
by DONALD CHASE
Michael

Chapman, who shot TAXI

DRIVER and

was

Oscar-nominated

for RAGING BULL, calls it "an ex¬

traordinary new tool'' and used it ex¬
tensively on ALL THE RIGHT
MOVES, his first film as a director.
Jan De Bont, his director of photog¬

raphy on RIGHT MOVES, says it may
have saved him and his crew as much
as

two weeks of

sive

complicated, expen¬
pre-rigging for a football-stadium

sequence-a sequence

that would

have

required building scaffolding
towers for arcs a dangerous 125 feet

quickly adopted for 20 more college
gridiron contests telecast over the
next 12 weeks before hitting the ulti¬
mate TV sports jackpot by lighting the
Pasadena Rose Bowl for the 1983

holding a sportscluslamps horizontally and ver¬
tically adjustable on a knuckle
system. Each truck has its own
generator.

Super Bowl. Then came a TV com¬
Spruce Goose, a twoday shoot within a geodesic dome
that accommodated the craft's largerthan-a-football-field 325-foot wing¬
span, and then the system's feature

figure out how to put large numbers of
lights together and precisely move
them around up in the air as a quality
light source,'' says Musco president
Joe P. Crookham in pointing out the

mercial for the

debut in ALL THE RIGHT MOVES.

The

system currently consists of

eight trucks owned by Oskaloosa,

high.
They're talking about the Musco

Iowa-based Musco Mobile

Mobile

nated with its sister company,

Lighting System, which made

its TV debut on September 20, 1982,
with ABC's broadcast of the Michi-

gan-Notre Dame game at Notre
Dame Stadium. The system was
32

150-foot

Ltd. The

Lighting,
technology and design origi¬

Musco
Sports-Lighting, Inc., of Muscatine,
Iowa, which manufacturers and in¬
stalls permanent stadium lighting.
Each truck consists of

a

hydraulic

crane

ter of 15

"No

one

before has been able to

uniqueness of his and engineer Myron
system. "After we work out
a computer program for each of the
lights, they become one composite
light source because they're all aimed
relative to each other. Then, lifted,
Gordin's

pre-focused, in the air on the crane,
hydraulically control the whole

we can

light rack and rotate it around."
At Notre Dame, six Musco cranes
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