Panther (company)
Panther GmbH is a film technical company situated in Aying, Munich. It develops and produces professional camera cranes and Camera dolly, dollies. It built the first ever electro-mechanical camera dolly, the "Super Panther". Company founder Erich Fitz received the 1990 Oscar "Scientific & Engineering Award". History Panther GmbH was founded in 1986 by Erich Fitz. It specialized in the production, sales, and rental of film equipment. In 1990, Panther and its ''HTG GmbH'' subsidiary (founded in 1988), moved to Oberhaching. In 1991, two more rental outlets opened in Prague and Hamburg. In 1999 Fitz decided, because of the expansion, to build new premises, which opened in 2001. In 2008, at the Cinec in Munich, Panther celebrated the 25th anniversary of producing Panther Dollies and presented the 1000th electro–mechanical dolly, which was built in gold for the occasion. In 2010, Panther developed the ''Tristar'' and opened an outlet in Berlin. A year later, the Fitz family cha ...
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