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A cinema camera built on a stabilised rig with a wooden handle, on a carpeted bench.

Pillar 01 · Technology and R&D

New tools, put through a working day.

Camera, tracking, stabilisation and virtual production kit, tested on a working unit with heads of department and new entrants on the same set.

Bring a product

Chapter 1

Why a working day

Pinewood Futures Festival 2023 1:03Our film

A bench test shows a product works. A shooting day shows whether it survives a production.

Senior crew tell you if it holds up. New entrants show you where it trips people up.

Futures in Film CIC grew out of MR Helix Ltd's training work. MR Helix builds and backs the kit on our units; we run the training, as a separate social enterprise.

Recent tests

Tracking
Sony OCELLUS prototype tracking on a working unit, Pinewood Futures Festival, January 2026
Unit
Set in Motion, Eastbrook Studios, November 2025

In the test room

  • An ARRI camera on a stabiliser sits on a carpeted bench in the white test room.

    An ARRI camera on a stabiliser in the white test room

  • An ARRI camera with a matte box on a tripod in a white corridor.

    A camera with a matte box on a tripod in the corridor

  • A technician inspects a large cine lens by a window.

    Inspecting a large cine lens

  • A compact camera package with wireless video and a lens, on a bench in a workshop.

    A compact package with wireless video

  • A technician preps a camera package on a cart in an equipment store lined with cases.

    Prepping a camera package in the kit store

  • Close-up of hands on the control wheels of a remote camera head.

    Hands on the wheels of a remote head

A technician lifts a camera on a stabiliser in a test room lined with cinema cameras and benches.

Film as well as the new

Our 35mm project tests celluloid in the same room as the LED wall.

Shot on Film

Who it's for

A technician demonstrates a large-format cinema camera to visitors on a manufacturer's stand at the BSC Expo.ManufacturersA graded report from a real unit. A camera operator in purple stage light watches a scene beside a camera.Heads of departmentTry it before a production pays for your opinion. A speaker presents beside a screen in a library hall.UniversitiesResearch on a working set.

Watch: kit on a working day

Put it through a working day

A graded report from a real unit, written by the crew who used it.

Bring a productSee a test day

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