OConnor

OConnor Engineering Laboratories was founded in 1949 by Chadwell O’Connor. Chad, once a designer and builder of steam power plants, always had a passion for steam locomotives. In the late 1940s, he decided to document them on film before they were all gone, but found it impossible to pan smoothly with his Bell & Howell camera. To solve this problem, Chad designed and built a Fluid Head camera support that would allow his lightweight camera to follow the moving trains without jumps, and distracting starts and stops. One day, in 1949 while he was filming the trains at Glendale Station, another steam train enthusiast noticed this unusual setup and stopped to ask a few questions. He liked the concept, and asked Chad to build a Fluid Head that would solve pan & tilt problems on his new film, ‘The Living Desert’. The man was Walt Disney. Today OConnor Engineering specializes in heavy-duty fluid heads, tripods and camera accessories. As a Vitec group brand, OConnor has a large dealer networking spanning the United States and in more than two dozen countries across six continents.

网站

https://www.ocon.com/

OConnor的外部链接

所属行业

电影、视频和录音制作业

规模

51-200 人

总部

Burbank，California

创立

1952

领域

Broadcast、Film、Cinema、Fluid Heads和Tripods