Originally installed in one of the smaller Tv Stages at Pinewood Film Studios

Comes complete with the industry standard toughed Fresnel glass lens

and a set of folding 4-leaf barndoors and a metal 'Egg-Crate' style Louvre 

for the Soft-Box side of the light which slides in or out depending if required.

The light is able to be used in a lighting stand. However this model was designed 

to be able to operate from the lighting grid above using a series of rotating cups which 

allow the user to pan and tilt and also flood and spot by inserting a pole with a hook into 

the rotating cups. Such a practical design and one that is still in use in studios today.

White cup - controls the Tilt

Blue cup - controls the Pan

Green cup - controls the Flood / Spot

So you have the Fresnel Spot-light on one side and by spinning the lamp around you 

have the Soft-box on the other side - a genius design.

The softxbox side of the light has some of the original bulbs still installed.

[please note: no lamps are included for the spot-light part of the lights, but easy to wire 

up a domestic bulb for the inside and Hey Presto! 

The stand is also not included and is to merely to show you what the light would look like 

when mounted, but lighting stands are readily available on ebay, or if you with to suspend 

the lamp in the air we can help and advise what clamp you would require in order to do so 

and will be happy to introduce you to the company that supplies them.

The lens and barndoors could also be re-purposed onto other lights and are worth alone

more than we are asking for the entire light.

[here's some information from the original Rank Strand sales brochure]

In one mode, Giano is a conventional focusing Fresnel but by rotating the luminaire to the opposite 

end a soft even fill light is obtained. This is achieved by using a twin filament 2.5/5kW tungsten halogen 

lamp for the Key-light and four I 250W tungsten halogen lamps for the Soft-light. It is possible to switch from 

full to half power in either mode thereby reducing the intensity by 50% without change of colour temperature. 

Meeting the two major lighting requirements of television in one dual-purpose luminaire, Giano provides the 

fiexibil1ty to enable the majority of lights in a studio to remain permanently rigged with their mode changed for 

each production. Supplied with 4 metres of power cable, 'Spot' side complete with 4 leaf rotating barndoor, 

colour frame and wire guard.