Mole-Richardson Company
| Mole-Richardson Company | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Incorporation |
| founding | 1927 |
| Seat | Pacoima , California |
| management |
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| Branch | Lighting technology, film accessories |
| Website | http://www.mole.com |
Mole-Richardson Company is a US company that is a leader in lighting and lighting for the motion picture industry.
history
The Mole-Richardson Company was founded in 1927 by the Sicilian immigrant Peter Mole and his partners Elmer C. Richardson and the electrician Fileding C. Coates. Mole had previously worked for General Electric in New York City and moved to Los Angeles in 1923 , where he worked for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studio . There he realized that most of the early filmmakers used equipment that could be improved and so he and his two partners decided to take this into account. In 1927, the company was finally founded in a small shop on Santa Monica Boulevard . Their products were quieter than conventional lighting devices and therefore found rapid distribution , especially at the beginning of color and sound films, and eventually became the Technicolor standard. Just eight years after it was founded, the company received an Oscar for technical merits .
In 1960 Warren Parker, Mole's son-in-law, took over the company. Today, Larry Mole Parker and Mike Parker, two of his sons, run the company. A subsidiary is Studio Depot, a trade that supports film studios with equipment and merchandise.
Oscars
- 1936: Oscar for technical merits ("for their development of the 'Solar-spot' spot lamps")
- 1947: Oscar for technical merit ("For the Type 450 super high intensity carbon arc lamp")
- 1984: Oscar for technical merit: William G. Krokaugger ("For the design and engineering of a portable, 12,000 watt, lighting-control dimmer for use in motion picture production")
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Suzanne Tarbell Cooper, Amy Ronnebeck Hall, Frank E. Cooper Jr .: Images of America: Los Angeles Art Deco . Arcadia Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7385-3027-7 , pp. 63 .
- ^ Scott Higgins: Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow: Color Design in The 1930s . University of Texas Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-292-71628-5 , pp. 81 f .
- ^ Company History. (No longer available online.) Official website, archived from the original on February 21, 2012 ; Retrieved January 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Official website of Studi Depot. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 27, 2012 ; Retrieved January 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
