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Company Overview
The Cruet Company co-ordinates the movement of over 30 video location units and crews working in many diverse areas of the Broadcast Industry and Corporate Television Production field.
Since its origin in 1986, The Cruet Company has been committed to providing its clients with the latest video technology including the Panasonic AJ–HDC27FE Varicam, Sony HDW–750P HDCAM, Sony DVW–790WSP Digibeta, Ikegami HL–DV7W DVCAM and the Sony HVR–Z1E DVCAM.
Our location unit packages represent excellent value. Comprehensively equipped, they include peripherals which we regard as essential, but which others hire companies charge for as extras.
All location units and equipment are available with a wet hire crew (wethire) , or we can supply the location equipment as a dry hire package (dryhire) for clients who have crews.
The Cruet Crews
We supply wethire crews for the full range of production equipment. These re highly talented technicians who are well known in the broadcast industry. All the Company's crew members have well-established credentials in all fields of programme making.
Our crews were the first to shoot Betacam SP for a network TV series in the UK and we continue to lead the field with the early introduction of HDCAM, Varicam and Digibeta kits into the broadcast hire market.
The Main Cameras
These include the Sony HDW750P, DVW790WSP, DSR450P and Panasonics latest AJ-HDC27FE variable framerate Varicam units.
The Cruet Company supplies a full range of the latest Sony, Panasonic and Ikegami digital broadcast camcorders that cover top end highdef production, such as drama, to the other end of the market with the tricky fly on the wall location Mini DV camcorders. We also have a full range of SpyCam items for the more covert production needs.
Equipment maintenance is a high priority at The Cruet Company, so all our inhouse service is done by our ex-Sony engineer Tom Filin, who is also our Engineering Director. All other camera service is done by TopTeks.
The Clients
The full list is far too long to put here, but our clients read like a whos who of the Film, Video and Corporate Production Industry.
A few of the market leaders who we work with use are THE EDGE PICTURE COMPANY, SHINE SEPTEMBER FILMS, BITE YER LEGS, VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS, TONI & GUY TV, ENDEMOL UK, BBC, CLEVER MEDIA, JUICE, HAWKSHEAD, RED SHARK, DARLOW SMITHSON, CHARLIE PRODUCTIONS, JACK MORTON WORLDWIDE, UNIVERSAL MUSIC INTERNATIONAL, NORTH ONE TELEVISION, ALCHEMY, IWC MEDIA, PICTURE PRODUCTION OMPANY, GRANITE FILM & TELEVISION, FUSE FILMS, WORLDWIDE PICTURES, JOHN LODEN ASSOCIATES, HAT TRICK PRODUCTIONS, CRICKET, PCI:FITCH, SERPENT PRODUCTIONS, TWO FOUR, CHEERFUL SCOUT PRODUCTIONS, ISIS, DIGITAL SNEAKERS, SLEDGE, APPLE CORPS, PACIFIC 7, BERGINLAKE, WALL TO WALL TELEVISION, SONY BMG, OCTOBER FILMS, WORLD TELEVISION, BRITS TV, BUCKMARK PRODUCTIONS, RSA FILMS, GRANADA TELEVISION, CC LAB, JETIX EUROPE, MERCURY MUSIC, DANGEROUS FILMS, DONE & DUSTED GROUP, MARK STEWART PRODUCTIONS, CABOOSE, MAVERICK TELEVISION, ZIGZAG PRODUCTIONS, BETTY TV, RDF MEDIA, JACARANDA, TALKBACKTHAMES, PARK AVENUE PRODUCTIONS, WORLD OF WONDER and DIVERSE PRODUCTION.
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