Proposed budget cuts for Oklahoma could gut state's film industry

 
BY PAULA BURKES pburkes@opubco.com
Published: February 19, 2012

Jon Shryock , 51, of Oklahoma City dreamed of working in the film industry ever since he as a boy visited the set of Ho-Ho the Clown.

A former engineer, he incorporated a film lighting equipment firm a decade ago and since has made his living leasing lights to production companies and working as a “key grip,” or light operator and chief rigging technician, on sets.

A 2008 film graduate of New York Un...


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