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Garrett Brown joins TMMI Advisory Board
Garrett Brown joins TMMI Advisory Board.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n 72\n \n\n\nTMM, INC.\n\nGarrett Brown joins TMMI Advisory Board\n\nWILMINGTON,\nDELAWARE -- November 21, 2012 -\nTMM, Inc. (Pink Sheet: TMMI) (\"TMMI\" or \"the Company\") is\npleased to announce the appointment of filmmaker Garrett Brown to its advisory\nboard, effective November 1st, 2012. \n\nGarrett Brown is the inventor of the\nOscar-winning Steadicam™ camera stabilizer that allows cameramen to film while\nwalking without the shaking and jostling of a handheld camera. He used it to\nshoot over a hundred movies including Rocky,\nThe Shining, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Philadelphia, and Return of The Jedi. He has worked with\nsuch directors as Woody Allen, Hal Ashby, John Alvidsen, Warren Beatty,\nJonathan Demme, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Frank Oz, John\nSchlesinger, Martin Scorcese and Steven Spielberg.\n\nMr. Brown was the recipient of Oscar\nfor Scientific and Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture\nArts and Sciences and an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television\nArts and Sciences for his invention of the Steadicam. \n\nHe holds 50 patents worldwide for\ncamera devices including: Steadicam Merlin, a miniature version for camcorders;\nSkycam, the robot camera that flies on wires over sporting events; Mobycam, the\nunderwater camera that chases the swimmers at the Olympics; the Emmy-award-winning Divecam and the ultra-light aerial film camera\ncalled SuperFlyCam. His new zeroG technology\n\"floats\" tools and reduces workplace injuries.\n\nHe made his way by innovation: as an\nadmen in the 60’s, a filmmaker and inventor in the 70’s, a clandestine radio\nhumorist in the 80’s and an industry-changing sports videographer in the 90’s,\nGarrett has recorded for MGM as a folksinger, made TV commercials, shot films\nfor “Sesame Street, and was the other half of the famous ad-lib radio duo for\nAmerican Express and Molson Beer which was named by Ad Age\nas one of 100 \"Best Ad Campaigns of the Century”.\n\nA member of the American Society of\nCinematographers, the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy\nof Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Garrett has been inducted into the Sports\nBroadcasting Hall of Fame. His popular lecture on “The Moving Camera” has been\nseen at film schools and festivals a...