B & M Lighting

Bardwell & McAlister has been in the business of manufacturing motion picture lighting and production equipment since 1926. Although the company has changed hands several times throughout the years B & M has always maintained the respect of professional filmmakers, providing television and major motion picture studios with quality products and serv... ices. During the 1940s B & M had over 200 employees in five separate plants here in southern California and published it's own in house news paper called the Spotlight. B &M dedicated three of those facilities to producing bomb loaders for the war effort based upon the design of their camera dolly. Raymond Wolffe owner of Pyramid Films since 1987 purchased B & M in 1999 with a vision of restoring the company to more than it's former glory by redesigning the product line to be the leader in energy efficient lighting products for the 21st century. With the help of Electronic Theatre Controls and their breakthrough HPL lighting design, Ray signed a licensing agreement with ETC to exclusively use their already great technology and put it into practice in the Mac Tech HPL Lighting products. The new Mac Tech HPL line of fixtures produced by B & M reduce power consumption up to 44% while at the same time exceeding the output and quality of light of our competitors standard par and conventional space light systems. What if I told you I could save you 44% on your power bill. To borrow a phase, it's an inconvenient truth, at least for our competitors, our lights are not only more efficient but they are constructed of aircraft aluminum and are half the weight. That means safety as well as efficiency. Ray Wolffe doing what he love's, when he's not working on lights he's playing rock n roll with Loose Chains.Read More