About Us

Learn about Rosco's history, leadership, awards and culture
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Rosco’s Mission:

Rosco leads with innovative solutions allowing creative people to achieve their vision, while creating a compelling culture and sustainable growth.

Rosco’s Values:

Customer Focus - listening and understanding customers; providing quality solution to their needs.
Quality - consistently achieving desired results.
Commitment - consistent support of our customers and co-workers.
Integrity - having and demonstrating values.
Passion - intense interest in and enthusiasm for our work.
Creative Thinking - fresh, creative, innovative approaches to achieving results.
Enduring Relationships - building long term, mutually supportive bonds with customers, suppliers and each other.
Trust - Earning trust by being truthful, reliable, competent and exchanging open and honest feedback.

Rosco, founded in 1910, is best known for the products it originally manufactured: color filters, gobos, scenic paints and fog products for the entertainment industry.

The company now offers products in more than a dozen categories, including LED Lighting, Backdrops and Digital Imagery, Window Control, Image and Effect Projection Equipment, Staging Products, Projection Screens and Flooring products for dance and television studios.

With innovations such as LitePad, SoftDrop, the Cube Family and the Silk LED Lighting System, Rosco has extended its market-reach by developing a large portfolio of solutions for the architectural and film & television markets.

The company has been honored with four awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the "Oscars"). The awards were for Rosco's Cinegel range of lighting filters and the CalColor range of lighting filters. Other awards were won for the company's backdrops and fog machines.

Rosco's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, with other US facilities near Austin, Texas and Hollywood, California. A truly multi-national company, Rosco maintains fully staffed businesses in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, and Spain.

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Rosco Leadership

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Awards

  • 1973 Academy Award®

    Rosco Cinegel earns an Academy Award® for the development of a complete system of lighting control filters

  • 1984 ACADEMY AWARD®

    Rosco is again recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences, this time with an award for the development of Rosco Fog Fluid.

  • 1999 ACADEMY AWARD®

    CalColor receives both an Academy Award® as well as a US Patent.

  • 2001 ACADEMY AWARD®

    A fourth Academy Award® for the development of the Day/Night Backdrop.

  • 2003 EMMY AWARD®

    An Emmy Award® for the development of the Day/Night Backdrop.

A HISTORY OF INNOVATION

Rosco is founded

1910

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