Film Dollies, Cranes, & Camera Heads From Around The World The American Cinematographer Magazine Review: "Michael G. Uva's "Dollies, Cranes & Camera Heads" presents an invaluable reference guide to the market's most prevalent cranes, dollies and heads, as well as a myriad of accessories. In short, keeping a copy of Michael Uva's Dollies, Cranes & Camera Heads close at hand during both prep and production is a good way to be sure of finding the correct tool for the needs of each shoot." By Jim Hemphill The "Below the Line" Newspaper Book Review: Written with a folksy-wisdom and ease Cleverly...

Film sets, like most other industries, have a unique language of their own. As the world evolves, so does the work conversations' on movie sets. How we once spoke lovingly about 35-milimeter-film making... is almost gone. Now everything is turning to digital. But, basics are still basics, and you have to keep up with the current trends. Crew Speak does just that. It is a perfect blend of most movie jargons and slangs, along with many of the latest terms used today Filled with pictures, charts, and drawings to aid you to "Get up to speed " In many instances, you can see, and get the feel, of...

Square Head With an I.Q. not much higher than "Forest Gump," Michael has seemed to "make it " from high school dropout, to world traveler, and now, an Author. Authors Note: This book started out as a journal for my grandkids. I wanted them to know who I really am. (Who really knows their grandparents?) Currently, they only know me as "Papa." I like that. I like being a papa. I like being known as the chubby little gray haired old man who works in the movie business. One grandchild, Jessica, once said to me, "Papa, you're not like my friends' papas', you're a little weird, but a cool weird."...

How does a backwoods, lowly enlisted mechanic become a WWll, P-51, ace fighter pilot ? I wrote Tippy as a tribute to a Master Gunnery Sergeant that I had the pleasure and honor to have served with while in the Marines. I remember as a young Marine transferring home from overseas. I had received orders to report to Hams-37, a DC-3 (C-47-military distinction) transport squadron at El Toro Air Base. I was awaiting my discharge from my enlistment. This is where I met Master Gunnery Sergeant, Charles Walker Tippie. Man was he a salty old marine. A fair guy, but let's just say, seasoned. I flew a...

E-Jipped Worlds collide, when a time traveling, New York Mobster, travels to ancient Egypt, before the Great Pyramids were constructed. He brings the Pharaoh many small, seemly insignificant and unassuming, modern trinkets like; an iPod, a six pack of beer, and an Encyclopedia of "How the Great Pyramids were really built " Does he change the course of History or does he set the present course we are on while becoming an Egyptian God? Think about it. "What would happen if a Tony Soprano type could travel in time?"

STORY *** Fade-Out - Comedy/Drama/Action A tiny commercial film crew find themselves stranded after a Coup d'etat in a foreign country, with no means of escape and no help coming from the USA. The crew devises a plan to use the products for the advertisement, plus their former trades, and their current expertise as filmmakers; they hide their planned escape in plain sight. STORY *** Hell On Heels - Comedy/ Mystery - Fable The Devil sends his fashionista, stiletto-wearing daughter to capture the soul of a doubling dealing FBI agent, which the Angel of Death has been assigned to protect. STORY...