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What (who) is klieg - definition
HARMFULLY BRIGHT LAMP NAMED FOR ITS INVENTORS, USED IN STAGE & SCREEN THROUGH THE 1990'S
Klieg; Klieglight; Klieg lights; Lasky lighting; Kleig light; Klieg eye
klieg light
[kli:g]
¦ noun a powerful electric lamp used in filming.
Origin
1920s: named after the American brothers, Anton T. Kliegl and John H. Kliegl, who invented it.
Actinic conjunctivitis
MEDICAL CONDITION
Kleig eyes; Klieg eyes
Actinic conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the eye contracted from prolonged exposure to actinic (ultraviolet) rays. Symptoms are redness and swelling of the eyes.
Wikipedia
Klieg light
A Klieg light is an intense carbon arc lamp especially used in filmmaking. It is named after inventor John Kliegl and his brother Anton Kliegl. Klieg lights usually have a Fresnel lens with a spherical reflector or an ellipsoidal reflector with a lens train containing two plano-convex lenses or a single step lens.
Examples of use of klieg
1. Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON Under the klieg lights of a prime–time press conference, George W.
2. The Rose Garden was strung with thick cables and dotted with amplifiers, klieg lights and risers for the television cameras.
3. Next to his mosque is a televangelist‘s dream – an auditorium with 1,500 seats, banks of speakers, a live band, and klieg lights.
4. By analogy to Justice Louis Brandeis‘s famous dictum that, "Sunlight is . . . the best disinfectant," television‘s klieg lights in the Supreme Court would be the public‘s best informant.
5. But counterintuitively Gillespie said it could make it easier to work on issues with Congress if the klieg lights are focused elsewhere and the political pressure eases.