Thread: Movie industry lighting

Guys, I was watching a cheasy movie with police cars in it. I was curious if any of the vendors in here have sold light bars or other lighting equipment to movie producers to use on cars they equip or plan on destroying?

Just curious

Dallas Craigslist often has vectors and streethawks for $25.00.

I wonder how many Aerodynics were destroyed in the original "Dukes of Hazard"?

Sorry, I had a typo which confused some people. I meant to say Watching not wanting

They sure didnt use any vendors like that in the Blues Brothers!

We sold a number of Vistas to a production company up here a few years ago. They were trying to emulate a Seattle PD car for some reason. It may have been X-MEN as much of that was filmed here. We've also sold equipment to Dreamcatcher (Stephen King). I haven't seen the movie, but at some point you see a monster driving a police car and reaching down to punch all the buttons on the equipment in the console. We got them the consoles, the equipment ,etc -then the movie guys added their own lights behind the faces of the equipment.

They used to use old beat up bars - we've seen Edge bars in here with packing tape over the lenses holding them together, because you couldn't see it in the finished movie. However, now with HD, I gather you can see all that stuff so they have to use better bars.

I don't remember if it was on this board or on the old board, but someone had posted a picture of a big warehouse that belonged to a production company that had lightbars stacked on shelves floor to ceiling, and it was a tall warehouse.

Or maybe it was just a picture on the Google. I'll try to see if I can search it up.

We have rented lights to production houses in the past.
Also sold HID flashlights to the Movie / TV industry.

I think D&R supplied the lights for Blues Brothers 2000.

We used to rent out dash and visor lights for low budget films several times a year. We haven't had a request in several years.

-Jared

I/ve been to a movie car house in burbank, CA that had LAPD vistas/mx7000 by the pallet and some nice oldies. Owner never got back to me about selling LAPD use to sell them fully equiped cars.

Originally Posted by dg0223

I don't remember if it was on this board or on the old board, but someone had posted a picture of a big warehouse that belonged to a production company that had lightbars stacked on shelves floor to ceiling, and it was a tall warehouse.

Or maybe it was just a picture on the Google. I'll try to see if I can search it up.

I took/posted the pic a few years back and posted to Flickr... To the other post, it's in the Burbank area, so likely the same place... and I found unless you are in person with cash in hand, you're just another distraction. They do a lot movie and prop cars, PD, FD, ambulance, armored, taxi, etc. And at least at the time of the my visit, they were all too happy to sell you a bar -- in pallet quantities. (I was told the owner goes to auctions and buys 'em up, but the warehouse guys ended up with a healthy load of bars and no need for 'em.)

A Wall of Lightbars | Flickr - Photo Sharing

A Wall of Lightbars | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Fixed the link for ya, Wfd67. Still one of the coolest pictures of hundreds of lightbars in one spot...

Thanks! That link was my "smart" phone's half-baked effort of sharing content.