FilmTools.com Hollywood's source for grip, electrical, lighting & sound tools
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Filmtools: online source for grip, electrical, lighting, sound and video supplies
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We've been online since 1994 and we're the Web's only store dedicated to supporting the Motion Picture Camera Department. Our mission is to supply you with unequaled service and product selection. For those of you in the L.A. area, come on by our retail store- we'd like to meet you. If you're working on a project locally, you can send a runner for immediate pick-up, or we can make emergency deliveries, including over-the-counter freight for most major airlines at BUR or LAX. We signed on with ShopYahoo in April 2000 and our customers have bestowed us a 5 Star Rating since day one. Yahoo's unparallel and secure shopping cart is the most successful of its kind- a perfect match to our business profile.
History: Stan and Kim McClain, the owners of Filmtools founded Pasadena Camera Systems in 1985 with Dan Wolfe. PCS was the first U.S. based Wescam Agency and also rented motion picture and still camera equipment. The McClains sold their interest to Wolfe in 1995 and Wolfe in turn sold to Samy's.
With the proceeds from Pasadena Camera, the McClains founded and opened Expendables Online in June 2000. One month after opening, they bought a small one-person home-based business in Nashville called "Filmtools.com", which had an established online presence and condensed the two entities into Filmtools. Since 1982 Stan McClain has also been a cinematographer and has worked on over 50 motion pictures, mostly as an aerial cinematographer. He was president of the Society of Operating Cameramen 1997-1999 and retired from working in the air in 2003.
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