# Lighting Hollywood’s Lens: Inside Kino Flo, LiteGear, Chauvet’s Private Equity Rollup, and Burbank’s Cinema Hardware Industrial Spine

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Forensic investigative audit of the motion picture lighting economy: how set gaffers and craft inventors created Kino Flo (Frieder Hochheim & Rob Hummel) and LiteGear (Al DeMayo & Mike Bauman), New York private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners' Chauvet rollup and establishment of Chauvet Cinema Group at 2840 N Hollywood Way, the liquidation of 98-year-old incandescent pioneer Mole-Richardson under the digital LED revolution, and Matthews Studio Equipment's 1.89-acre precision manufacturing plant (AIN 2466-020-012, 4520 W Valerio St) led by CEO Tyler Phillips.

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