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Joseph Michael Sabol (born July 15th, 1954) is an American Videographer, Musician and Photographer.

EARLY YEARS

Joseph Sabol was the adopted child of John and Otilia Sabol and raised in Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. According to his autobiography, he was born at St. Anne's Hospital, run by the [Sisters of Charity] http://www.srsofcharity.org/index.html.

Joseph went to [St. Charles School] http://stcharlesschool.org]. He played the drums in the Nationally acclaimed Advanced Band. Joseph went to [Padua Franciscan High School] http://www.paduafranciscan.com] where he continued his music education. The Padua Band, directed by Wayne Miller, won numerous awards with the [NCMEA] http://www.jstor.org/pss/40214872]] The National Cathloic Music Educators Association

Joseph continued on to college at Penn State University where he earned an Associates and Bachelors Degree in Business. After graduating from Penn State, he went to work on various jobs. When he was 20 years old, his father died from a heart attack. During that same time he went to [Kutztown State University] http://www.kutztown.edu and studied Telecommunications with an emphasis on Television Production.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Joesph Sabol opened [J&J Video Productions] http://jandjvideoproductions.com] in 1983. At that time Minolta introduced the first commercially available home video production system. The system consisted of a single tube camera and a video recording/editing deck. What was unique about this camera was the fact that it was the first of it's kind to have a single multi-focal lens. Most television cameras at that time were extremely large and had 3 moveable lenses, one for close up, one for mid-range and one for wide angle shots.

This Minolta camera opened the doors for videographers to be able to shoot home videos. During this time, retail companies were producing video cassette recording machines, VCR's, as fast at they could. This made for a lucrative home video business. Joe decided to shoot weddings. The wedding video market began to grow exponentially. Being somewhat of a visionary, Joe knew that technology was constantly changing. He knew that analog video would soon become obsolete and that digital video would become the standard. He was able to use an IBM computer to create digital video effects and mix them with video images. It wasn't long after this that companies started to sell editors with digital video effects. At the same time, JVC produced a camera that had 3 Saticon tubes and was capable of producing broadcast quality video for the consumer market.

As a result, the quality of Joseph's work thrust him into the commercial video market. This was a turning point in his company because now he could offer the same commercial quality to the home video market as well as the commercial market. While shooting a television commerical for [Sickafus Sheepskins] http://www.sickafus.com], in Strausstown, Pennsylvania, he was introduced to [Pat Garrett] http://www.patgarrett.com], the owner of the store. [Pat Garrett] http://www.patgarrett.com] is a well known country music singer who has many connections throughout the country music industry in Nashville, Tennessee. It was as a result of this meeting that Joe's company was hired to shoot the [Country Music Legends Tour] http://www.thanksforthemusic.com/legends/index.html]. It was during those 3 years that Sabol worked with several Country Music Hall of Fame artists, including Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn and many others. He also had the opportunity to do work for other celebrities. This brought national recognition to J&J Video Productions. Several other videos produced by Joe Sabol played on the former TNN, The Nashville Network now CMT,. His company produced spots for [ABC Kids Beat] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445881/], PM Magazine and news bites for local and regional televison stations. In June of 2009 analog video was no longer the standard. High Definition Video is now the standard. J&J Video Productions made the conversion in early 2009.

THE STEAM GENERATOR PROJECT

In Spetember 2009, [KMX International],http://www.kmxintl.com] Hamburg Pennsylvania, contacted Joe about shooting a project that involved documenting the Steam Generator Transport from the cargo ship to 3 Mile Island, Middletown Pennsylvania. 3 Mile Island was the site of the worst nuclear accident in the US in the late 1970's. The project would take 30 days, over 70 miles. This over land transport would be the largest transport in US History. This International Project would involve 2 other countries, France and Italy.

The Steam Generators were immense. Each one of the generators weighed over 1 million pounds, was approximately 80 ft. long, 40-45 ft high, and as wide as a 2 lane Interstate Highway. Areva, http://www.areva-np.com/scripts/us/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=1310&L=US], [Fagioli] http://www.fagioliusa.com], [Kinsey] http://www.rkinsley.com] and [KMX International] http://www.kmxintl.com] were the companies that made, designed and transported these Generators. This project took over 5 yrs to complete.

This was the largest production ever attempted by [J&J Video Productions] http://jandjvideoproductions.com]. 30 days on location, shooting something that was almost the size of a DC-10 Airliner. In the end, the project was a total sucess, not a single glitch either in the production side or the transport side of this project. These companies have been entered in the Haulers of the Year Award, considered to be the Ocars of this industry.

THE FUTURE

The only public information that has been released by Joseph Sabol is that the production company is expanding and will be relocating its entire operation to Cleveland, Ohio, Parma specifically. The Philadelphia office is closing. Their public information office will be issuing a statement in a couple of months.