Pacific Borescopes used in Movies
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Our Products are in the SpotlightPacific Borescopes successfully provides solutions to industry with years of experience in inspection and testing. However, over many years we have from time to time had some strange requests for borescopes. The usual applications are normally safety related. To put it into the most simple terms... we offer products to verify the condition of anything that spins really fast, flys in the air, pumps stuff at high pressure or will blow up and kill somebody, is where our borescope products are used. Industrial stuff like looking into piping, turbines, nuclear and fossil fuel powerplant components, gearboxes, finished machined or as cast parts ready for machining and many, many other industrial applications. They also are used for surveillance under doors by SWAT teams before entering, or as the eyes inside "IED"'s in Iraq to discover if they can defuse the bomb before it goes off. These are serious applications which we are proud to have assisted in saving lives and millions upon millions of dollars over the years. However, these "behind the scenes" processes are not that exciting to most people. Some other applications can be and we also have interesting requests for our borescopes to be "Stars" in their own right. On your televison or on the big screen, at your local movie theater capturing your imagination. We have used them to look for nature conservation efforts such as looking in trees for Ant colonies in Africa, deep inside the burrows of Prarie Dogs, searching for Turtle eggs to save before predators eat them, and finding endangered species such as Kangaroo Rats. Both National Geographic and the Discovery Channel feature borescopes used in research applications such as looking into Egytian Mummies, to CSI investigating crime scenes, to the some of the best action and highest grossing films.  Beautiful Charlize Theron uses our borescope to crack a safe (See movie trailer here: at 1:36/2:54) in the 2003 hit movie "The Italian Job" 2003's Hit Film with Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell: "Swat" The Actor Ray Liotta actually calls out "Does someone have a borescope?" and enlists a locksmith in the middle of the night to break into a safe full of money in the movie "Phoenix" Jerry Bruckheimers excellent film starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris in 1996"The Rock" a scope was used in the "Shower scene" where they insert a video borescope through a drain hole up into a room and the probe tip actually bumps into a trip wire device. 1996's Hit Movie "Executive Decision"starring Steven Seagal, Kurt Russell and Halle Berry had a scene which included special op's forces looking inside a container to defuse a bomb. The scope was also used to peer through the floor passenger deck remotely from the cargo area. Watch the Movie Trailer at 1:20/2:18. Saving lives and pre-determining danger or danger situations before they happen, is the keyword for Borescopes and Videoscopes used for surveillance, breaking into safes, verifying suspects before entering a building or dangerous situation. A Videoscope has a small miniature camera inside the tip, much like the camcorders we all use- they too have a CCD or "Charge coupled Device" as the sensor that converts small particles (photons) of light into an electrical signal which is then converted into video. Since these borescope cameras are very small in diameter (0.160") they can be used for difficult shooting positions where a normal movie camera would not do the job since it is too large. So the Video Producers elected to use the actual NTSC video output of the borescope for the unique Gnarls Barkley Video "Gone Daddy Gone" where you can see at various times within the video our scope was positioned to view within the carpet threads at 0.47 seconds and 1.20 minutes video time line
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