Staff

• Graduated Parkway High School Class of 1963
• U.S. Air Force 1963-1967, Vietnam Veteran
• Attended Brooks Institute of Photography 1967-1968
• Moved back to St. Louis working as still photographer for Ron Barlow Studio
• Founded Creative Photography West 1970
• Maritz Productions 1973-1974 cross training as Gaffer/Chief Lighting Technician
• Moved to Kansas City in 1974 for Warford Productions as Gaffer & Studio Manager
• Founded Midwest Cine Services, Inc. 1980 with Tom Dischert.
• Moved Cine Services, Inc, to St. Louis 1985
• Gaffer on over 400 national TV commercials coast to coast
• Gaffer on over 30 feature films or TV movies
• Liquidated the rental part of the business in 2000 and 2001 including the Philadelphia office after the lost of partner Tom Dischert March 2001
• Refocused on lighting, dimming, and controls for houses of worship, schools, theater, TV, studios, exterior architecture, and building an expendable supply business.
• Transformed Cine Services, Inc. to Theatrical Design, Sales, and Service
• Former adjunct facility Webster University 17 years teaching Lighting for Film & Video
• Lifetime Member Media Communications Association formerly ITVA Member Illuminating Engineering Society

Rob Meckfessel is a St. Louis native educated at Southern Illinois University’s School of Cinema & Photography in Carbondale. He has since provided freelance photographic, film & video production services to the St. Louis area until joining Cine Services in the spring of 2000.

“It's been wonderful working for Cine all of these years. I’ve always been interested in all aspects of production and at Cine we are involved quite a bit. Everything from designing a theatre or studio, even before the building is built, to adding highlighting to existing venues, or supplying scenic supplies for a myriad of shows & productions. We are a small business in the Midwest that concentrate on Missouri & Illinois, but we are proud to serve churches, schools, theatres, photo & television studios, audio visual producers, and other venues from coast to coast, competing with the industry’s biggest suppliers. We are known for our service & expertise, often consulted on production details when people want to know what they need to make something work. And we have one of the most amazing showrooms in the Midwest.”

Rob is a huge Cardinals fan, owning one of the finest Cardinals autograph collections in existence. He is an avid dog lover & rescuer, currently cohabitating with Spanky, a 12 year old Chow, Shepherd, & Lab mix, and Bernie Mac, an Australian Shepherd who was cavorting outside of Cine in the summer of 2006 until he jumped into the back of Rob’s ’67 Chevy Malibu.

Tyler is a 1996 graduate of Lindenwood University with a B.A. in Technical Theater. Since graduating he has worked professional and Community Theater in and out of St. Louis. Tyler has been an actor, stage manager, set designer, set construction, director, lighting control board operator, sound board control operator and of course lighting designer. Local companies that Tyler has worked with are; The Goldenrod Show Boat, Clayton Community Theater Company, First Run Theater, West End Players, Hawthorn Players and currently is the lighting designer with Stray Dog Theatre. In 2010 Tyler won a Kevin Kline award for Best Lighting Design in St. Louis professional theatre for Stray Dog Theatres "The Trial". Over the last ten years at Cine, Tyler has kept himself busy with outside sales calls, curatin installations, console training and technical work. He is a certified technician for Martin intelligent fixtures also certified in system commissioning of Lightolier (Philips Entertainment Technology) family of products.