1981
End of the 80s around 85 TV Commercials, cooperating in Munich with Hajo Schmidle and Erich Fitz, FGV Schmidle & Fitz which later became FGV Rentals and Panther, used gear was mostly Arri or Moviecam.
1989
First interscreen GmbH, founded in Munich by Brigitte Schaller and Winfried Firneisen with own Sony BVW-400s, Ikegami HLV-55s, Canon, Fujinon, Sachtler…. 2020, 31 years later, it is still Brigitte Schaller you are talking to first however since 2010 at Bacharach in the Rhine River Valley.
1989
1st HD live production HD ! analogue, 3 x Sony HDC-500 / HDD-1000 1inch reels, NHK-OB-Van in Cologne.
1992
Live Productions in Beta SP, DigiBeta, from 2001 HD worldwide most CL Football, F1, Boxing, Tennis, as well as G7 summits, etc.
1998
2nd company, interscreen America Inc, founded in Tampa Bay, FL 20 years later also it is still Keith Olsen who you are talking to.
1998
Nagano Winter Olympics, 2-person Team , 1 camera, 3 x A-B-Roll -Edit, ( likely unknown today ) daily News for RTL, Germany.
1999
interscreen America: 3 x 3-BVW Edits und 6 ENG-cameras for 3 german networks, Football Conferation Cup in Mexico. Job no problem, but the german football heart severely wounded……
1999
Establishment of interscreen Japan Y.K. by Winfried Firneisen
2002
Football Words Japan-Corea : interscreen Japan installs the very first 3-camera HD Live Studio at IBC International Broadcast Center in Yokohama. Until 2002 on average 300 days / year on production somewhere on the globe and then came … family and kids..now what?
2002
Start worldwide sales of new and used Broadcast Equipment from Japan, earlier production clients for live-sports and on location shots are becoming clients and start to purchase cameras, HD and SRW decks up to nowadays HD / 4K ENG- and Box lenses.
2020
Corona crisis or not, it will get solved, the kids are grown up and on their own feet and so from autumn 2020 apart from the ongoing sales 4K and live equipment for the first time open again for productions, line producing and multilingual production coordination for broadcast and commercials globally in german, english, japanese.