Garrett Brown joins TMMI Advisory Board
November 21 2012 - 6:00AM
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TMM, INC.
Garrett Brown joins TMMI Advisory Board
WILMINGTON,
DELAWARE -- November 21, 2012
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TMM, Inc. (Pink Sheet: TMMI) ("TMMI" or "the Company") is
pleased to announce the appointment of filmmaker Garrett Brown to
its advisory
board, effective November 1st, 2012.
Garrett Brown is the inventor of the
Oscar-winning Steadicam™ camera stabilizer that allows cameramen to
film while
walking without the shaking and jostling of a handheld camera. He
used it to
shoot over a hundred movies including Rocky,
The Shining, Indiana Jones and the Temple of
Doom, Philadelphia, and Return of The Jedi. He has worked
with
such directors as Woody Allen, Hal Ashby, John Alvidsen, Warren
Beatty,
Jonathan Demme, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Frank
Oz, John
Schlesinger, Martin Scorcese and Steven Spielberg.
Mr. Brown was the recipient of Oscar
for Scientific and Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion
Picture
Arts and Sciences and an Emmy Award from the National Academy of
Television
Arts and Sciences for his invention of the Steadicam.
He holds 50 patents worldwide for
camera devices including: Steadicam Merlin, a miniature version for
camcorders;
Skycam, the robot camera that flies on wires over sporting events;
Mobycam, the
underwater camera that chases the swimmers at the Olympics; the
Emmy-award-winning
Divecam and the ultra-light aerial film camera
called SuperFlyCam. His new
zeroG
technology
"floats" tools and reduces workplace injuries.
He made his way by innovation: as an
admen in the 60’s, a filmmaker and inventor in the 70’s, a
clandestine radio
humorist in the 80’s and an industry-changing sports videographer
in the 90’s,
Garrett has recorded for MGM as a folksinger, made TV commercials,
shot films
for “Sesame Street, and was the other half of the famous ad-lib
radio duo for
American Express and Molson Beer which was named by
Ad Age
as one of 100 "Best
Ad Campaigns of the Century”.
A member of the American Society of
Cinematographers, the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and
the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Garrett has been inducted into
the Sports
Broadcasting Hall of Fame. His popular lecture on “The Moving
Camera” has been
seen at film schools and festivals around the world, including the
Media Lab at
MIT.
Mr. Brown will assist the Company by
reviewing and commenting on the technical aspects of the visual
experience of
TRUDEF compressed videos as they pertain to cinema, sports and
television. He will direct the Company to the world’s leading
creative
pioneers of outstanding digital images so that they will able to
immediately
benefit from the technical and artistic benefits of enhanced image
quality,
reduced bandwidth utilization and efficient media storage of the
TRUDEF codec.
ON
BEHALF OF THE TMMI BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF TMM, INC.:
GERARD
V. CAVANAUGH
CHAIRMAN
AND PRESIDENT
For
more information, please visit the Company’s Website at
http://www.tmmi.us.
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