Cogswell Video Services, Inc. is a post production video company which provides visual effects video assist, precision alignment, motion control triggering, and comprehensive multiple camera packages for film and television projects. The company provided video playback for the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Qpid" and the fifth season episode "Darmok". The company also provided their equipment to the Star Trek: Enterprise first season episode "Broken Bow" and five Star Trek films. [1]
Cogswell Video Services, Inc. was founded in 1980 by Steven L. Cogswell and taken over by brother and sound mixer Richmond G. Cogswell in 1992, both sons of Hollywood visual effects photographer Gordon Jennings.
The company worked on projects such as Mr. Mom (1983), Short Circuit (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Air America (1990), Rising Sun (1993), Point of No Return (1993), True Romance (1993), Virtuosity (1995), Carnivále (2003-2005), Mirrors (2008), and the television series Bright Falls (2010).
With over 400 feature film credits the company also provided their equipment to the television series Heroes, Bones, Entourage, Pushing Daisies, 24, The Mentalist, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Castle, Boston Public, Two and a Half Men, Brothers & Sisters, Numbers, Ghost Whisperer, Mad Men, House M.D., and FlashForward.
Star Trek credits[]
- TNG:
- ENT: "Broken Bow" – Video Assist (uncredited)
- Star Trek films
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier – Visual Effects Unit
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – Visual Effects Unit
- Star Trek Generations – Visual Effects Unit
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Star Trek: Insurrection
External links[]
- CogswellVideo.com – official site
- Cogswell Video Services, Inc. at the Internet Movie Database
- Richmond G. Cogswell at the Internet Movie Database