Footlight

A footlight is a theatrical lighting device arranged to illuminate a stage from the front edge of the stage floor in front of the curtain.

Originally set in a row of hooded individual enclosures, electric footlights are presently set in troughs across the edge of the stage so that they are not visible to the audience.

[1] An indirect footlight uses a light aimed at a reflecting surface to diffuse the illumination.

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