Customer Case Studies: Bardavon Movie House Marquee


	Case Studies: Bardavon Marquee

The Bardavon 1869 Opera House located at 35 Market Street in Poughkeepsie, New York takes you back to vintage era when local performance venues were the dazzling centerpieces of many towns. The owners of the theater were renovating the facility and wanted to bring it back to all of its glory, including the attention grabbing marquee in front of the building. With the help of Animated Lighting, they returned the Bardavon to the grand showplace it once was. Here are some of the details.

Beginning with the initial layout from the sign company (see diagram to the right), Animated Lighting worked with the designers to determine 96 independent lighting circuits were needed. While the different sign pieces were being fabricated, program sequences were developed and downloaded to a standard Animated Lighting Monster Brain configured to control six ELD-16 controllers.

Unlike the original sign, the 21st century sign had eight different lighting possibilities easily changed by turning a selector dial and pressing a button. The lighting sequences included:

Half of the bulbs on the underside of the marquee are fully lit. All underside perimeter bulbs fully lit. No other portion of the marquee is lit and no movement or chasing is involved.
The entire underside of the marquee (including the underside perimeter) is fully lit. No other portion of the marquee is lit and no movement or chasing is involved.
The entire marquee (including the underside and the underside perimeter) is fully lit. No movement or chasing is involved.
All marquee elements chase in one direction and then reverse to chase in the opposite direction. BARDAVON letters are on solid.
Fans have alternating sunburst effect with every other fan blade displaying burst sequence, underside inverted chase, fins on solid, crown on front chases, BARDAVON glimmers, full fan sunburst, BARDAVON glimmers, multi-item chase.
Fans sunburst, side and front perimeters on solid, BARDAVON spells, everything else chases. Increment and decrement fans, side and front perimeters and BARDAVON on solid, everything else chases. Trace each letters in BARDAVON while perimeters, medallions, front fins, and ceiling grids chase, side and front perimeters on solid. Fans alternate, side and front perimeters and BARDAVON on solid, everything else chases. Fans fill using pop-fade lighting effect, side and front perimeters and BARDAVON on solid, everything else chases.
Rotate fans, perimeters, and medallions out, BARDAVON spells. Rotate fans and perimeters in, BARDAVON glimmers. Fans and BARDAVON chase off then back on
Fans sunburst, side/front/underside perimeters and underside on solid, BARDAVON spells, everything else chases. Increment and decrement fans, side/front/underside perimeters and underside and BARDAVON on solid, everything else chases. Trace each letters in BARDAVON while perimeters, medallions, front fins, and ceiling grids chase, side and front perimeters on solid. Fans alternate, side/front/underside perimeters and BARDAVON on solid, everything else chases. Fans sunburst using pop-fade lighting effect, side/front/underside perimeters and underside and BARDAVON on solid, everything else chases.

If the customer wanted an extra-special show for a unique occasion, all they had to do was call Animated Lighting and a quick program was provided. This is a classic Animated Lighting installation where WOW was added to what could be a very ordinary project.

But all the pictures in the world can't show the real magic of this sign. Watch the video and then click here for more information.