G.I. Gidoni filed an application for a patent for the distribution console on January 12, 1930. The design of the light-colour console was actuated using a “lever switch”, which made it possible to change shades of colour (“the main eight-step gamut of colours along the spectrum”, raising and lowering the primary colours – coloured sharps and coloured flats, a total of 24 gradations) and light intensity (from no light to maximum illumination, 10 gradations of illumination), to which were added the effects of light crescendo and diminuendo, flashes and complete fading of light, light and colour pauses and tremolo. Judging by the light-colour scores of G.I. Gidoni, light sources no higher than 300 watts were used in the small concert lighting performance. The distribution panel was patented by the artist in addition to his own lighting decorations and was classified by the Committee for Inventions of the USSR in classes 21 c (Electrical wires and installation equipment) and 27 (Distribution boards, panels, panels, including panels for fuses and meters).
Links to Third-Party Publications:
Gidoni, G. I. (1931). Distribution panel: application date No. 62243; application 01/12/1930; publ. 09/30/1931. USSR patent database. URL: http://patentdb.su/3-22778-raspredelitelnyjj-pult.html (access date: 05/08/2025); Kolganova O. V. Light-colour projection devices by Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné and G. Gidoni (1920–1930s) // The Art and Science of Television. 2021. No. 17.4. pp. 33–62. https://www.academia.edu/72333224/Light-colour_projection_devices_V_Baranoff_Rossine_and_G_Gidoni_1920s_1930s_W_Baranoff_Rossine_s_and_G_Gidoni_s_Light_and_Colour_Projection_Devices_1920s_1930s
