The Gizmo

By Hubert Bill White

The Gizmo is a comedy thriller about a veterinary technician and her female friend, a computer whiz, who together invent a device that lets lovers feel exactly what their partners feel when they have sex.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524525026

Hubert Bill White

The author of The Gizmo is Hubert Bill White, who has written, produced, and directed scores of documentaries, TV commercials, business films, and short movies. Many of his projects have won awards. He’s also a part-time professor in the film and TV department at CSU Northridge. He’s writing a nonfiction book that will help people be more creative. He’s also writing another novel, “Window of Peace.” It’s based on actual events about a white photojournalist who falls in love with a teenaged Dakota girl during a bloody Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1865, which led to the largest mass hanging in US history.

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Copyright © 2016 by Hubert Bill White.

Library of Congress Control Number:  2016911298

ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-5245-2504-0

             Softcover     978-1-5245-2503-3

             eBook          978-1-5245-2502-6

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 08/20/2016

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LOGLINES 2016 for

Hubert Bill White’s Projects

MOVIE SCRIPTS:

Window of Peace is a historical drama based in part on actual events about a white photojournalist who falls in love with a Dakota Indian teenager during a bloody Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1865, which led to the largest mass hanging in US history. (Completed script. Quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; 2008 finalist in the AAA Fade-In Screenwriting Competition.)

Skullduggery is a thriller about archaeologists and a journalist who search for a valuable buried skull filled with gold, and one of them is willing to kill to get it. (Completed script. Semifinalist.)

For Love or Money is a comedy thriller about a young photographer who is hired to pretend to kill a secretive mob boss, who happens to be a woman, which threatens his tenuous relationship with a beautiful actress. (Completed script)

The Gizmo is a comedy thriller about a veterinary technician and her female friend, a computer whiz, who together invent a device that lets lovers feel exactly what their partners feel when they have sex. (Completed script)

Small Steps is a comedy drama about a fifteen-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family who, when she becomes pregnant, turns to her eccentric grandmother for advice on whether or not to get an abortion. (Completed script)

Peace Is Our Profession is a thriller about a US Air Force officer and a group of peace activists in the 1960s who steal a nuclear bomb and threaten to explode it unless President Nixon stops the Vietnam War. (Treatment)

The Anomaly is a sci-fi thriller about a group of giant, dangerous immortal aliens whose original Adam and Eve equivalents chose not to eat the forbidden fruit. They come to earth to try to get humans to help them become mortal. (Treatment)

TV SHOW SCRIPTS:

Haiku is a comedy-drama TV series in which a genius college professor leads Mensa-level students in trying to solve the world’s greatest conundrums, even as they have the same emotional and relationship problems that all college students do. (Treatment)

Firsts is a comedy-drama TV series about various first events in the lives of eight teenagers, including sex, drugs, suicide, a crucial musical performance, the death of a parent, a major car accident, and coming out as a lesbian. (NOTE: Although the TV scripts will be written by professional Hollywood writers, the ideas for each episode will come from short stories written by actual teenagers.) (Completed pilot script)

The Base Players is a sitcom series about a wacky Hollywood softball league that pits producers, actors, directors, agents, and writers against each other, including past lovers Molly, a former actor and now a successful producer, and struggling actor Sean. (Treatment)

TV SHOWS (REALITY and DOCUMENTARY):

Working Moms is a reality series about the challenges working mothers face while trying to balance having a job, being a mother, and having a spouse. (Treatment)

Art on the Rocks is an archaeology series on the mysterious and fascinating worldwide phenomena of rock art, including the extensive rock art in California and the Southwest; the rock art of Minnesota and the northeastern United States and Canada and its possible connection with Mexican and Southwest cultures; the maritime rock art of Scandinavia; the rock art in the caves of France and Spain; Neanderthal rock art; the extensive rock art of Australian Aborigines; the rock art in Peru, including giant geoglyphs; African rock art, especially in the Sahara and Kalahari deserts; sexuality in rock art; astronomical symbols in rock art; and hunting and death depictions in rock art. I have a saying: To be human is to make art; to make art is to be human. (Treatment and several short films)

The Disappeared is an archaeology series that looks at the mysterious disappearance of lesser-known societies, such as the Coso Range People of California; the Anasazi; the Cahokians; the Etruscans; the Vikings in Labrador and possibly in Minnesota; the Mandan Indians of North and South Dakota, some of whom had blue eyes and blonde hair; the Tierra de Fuegans of South America; the Tasmanians south of Australia; the Pitcairn in the South Pacific; and the Neanderthals of Spain.

Conundrums is a reality science series that looks into fascinating and controversial issues of science and society. It addresses questions such as the following: Why does music have such a powerful effect? Do humans have free will? Why do many people believe in god or gods? Does ESP exist? How can birds navigate by magnetism or polarized light but humans can’t … or can we? Are numbers inherently useful, or do humans make them that way? Why do humans laugh but other animals don’t … or do they? Why do almost all societies have some words that are taboo? Why do humans usually have sex in private while most other animals don’t? If sex feels so good, why don’t humans have more sex?

A New Understanding Of … is a science and social-issue reality series about things we take for granted but may not be what they seem. It addresses questions such as the following: Does time really exist? Is time travel possible? Can some things go faster than the speed of light? Is the big bang theory of the origin of the universe correct? Do intelligent aliens exist, and if so, what do they look like? Is there really a god or gods? Does the universe have an edge? Are there other universes? Is the universe going to end? Why are quantum effects so weird? Are there sub-subparticles? How does gravity work? How can electrons do so much that we name their effects electricity and electronics? How does magnetism work? Why are both light and water similar in their abilities to act as both particles and waves?

All Fall Down is an archaeology series that looks at fascinating yet endangered archaeological sites and what, if anything, should be done to preserve them. We will look at the sites’ origins and the people who created them, including Easter Island’s moai; the mounds of Cahokia; various sites of the Stonehenge; Pompeii; Viking settlements on Greenland and Labrador; Machu Picchu; and rock art in many places, including the Lascaux Cave.

More books from H. Bill White are coming soon, including the following:

Creativity: The Joys and Benefits of Being More Creative

A nonfiction guide about how and why to be more creative.

Window of Peace

A fictional love story between a white journalist and a Dakota maiden based on