![The nose of the rocket could be swivelled – allowing the Spitlight to project images both vertically and horizontally.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/spitlight-titel-300x225.jpg)
A ‘light-spitter’ lights up the skies
It caused a sensation in 1955 – the Spitlight, a light beam device that could project images onto cliff faces and clouds. But the futuristic device brought no joy for its inventor.
![The Spitlight in transit. The generator, which was mounted on a trailer and always had to be carried with the device, is out of shot here.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/lastwagen-300x238.jpg)
![Projection during the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/berg-300x267.jpg)
![Metal templates known as gobos were used as inserts.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/gobo-300x181.jpg)
The projector’s long odyssey
A TV report from 1982 featuring archive images from the 1950s (in German). YouTube / Schweizer Fernsehen
![Today, the Spitlight is displayed in a hall at the Museum Enter at Solothurn railway station.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/spitlight-museum-300x190.jpg)
![Gianni Andreoli as a young man.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/andreoli-270x300.jpg)
![The Spitlight 300 projector was one of the major attractions at the 1952 World Exhibition of Photography in Lucerne.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/luzern-276x300.jpg)