Tested: Last month, Garrett Brown, who invented the Steadicam, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. It’s a well-deserved honor. The Steadicam is indeed a wonderful innovation that’s taken the bumps and shakes out of camerawork, and as much as we love the shakicam scenes we’ve seen in horror flicks like the original Evil Dead, any movie fan knows there are innumerable incredible segments and camera moves that wouldn’t have been possible without the Steadicam.
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It's amazing to hear the stories of how these new methods of film were introduced. What the steadicam was to John Carpenter making Halloween, live-motion tracking was to Avatar. It is these revolutionary ideas which maybe don't seem too complicated to the general public that take movies one step up every couple of years. As Ray Stella says in the article, the steadicam is becoming so popular that it is replacing the dolly system which has been used almost since the beginning of film. It's amazing to think that devices such as live-motion tracking and 3D projection could become so popular in the near future that they are never questioned twice and widely accepted as a standard in the film industry - as the steadicam has since Carpenter invented it.
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