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- Billy Dee Williams presents a Scientific or Technical Award (Class I) to Garrett Brown and the Cinema Products Corporation Engineering Staff under the supervision of John Jurgens, for the invention and development of Steadicam. Hosted by Bob Hope at the 50th Academy Awards.
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My grandfather Bob Auguste won the Oscar along with the team on this. My mom was 16 and went with him. I used to stare at the pic of her holding the statue. I am so proud of my grandfather and his place in history. Also, I love youtube for having EVERYTHING!
I wonder if Billie Dee Williams knew that he would be playing in the next Star Wars movie at this stage... :P
I was just thinking the same thing. It's possible because Empire came out only 2 years after this show.
The Steadicam which is still being used today.
Bravo for the Steadicam!
Foreshadowing
I love how Brown's girlfriend ran up and down the Rocky steps to help the project.
Sadly it was a travesty the Hollywood kept a grip on this thing for decades. The Steadicam should of hit the masses as soon as small portablew Camcorders came out. By keeping this thing away from the masses we are 25 years behind on stabilization. Gimbals have come to rescue us from the over priced steadicam systems. Decades of shaky home movies could of been saved by this system.
Incorrect statement on several counts. The first one-piece camcorder emerged in 1984; by 1986 Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown began working on a handheld version of his concept that would work with these cameras. The Steadicam JR was introduced in 1990, which was fine because camcorders had become smaller by that time (full size VHS models giving way to VHS-C and 8mm), and was reborn in 2003 as the Merlin. Downsizing the Steadicam arm and vest for true bodymounting took a bit longer, but eventually emerged in the 2000's with the Pilot and subsequent models. And in the meantime, other brands like Glidecam introduced their own handheld and bodymounted versions. So the tech was not "held back" from the masses, it was simply a matter of working out how to downscale and simplify the design and manufacture to match expected consumer and prosumer price points.
@@chupap1The Steadicam Jr was not a full blown arm and vest steadicam thus it can't do what the Spring arm can which is to isolate the user from the camera up and down movements. This is something that not even any Gimbals can pull off since the user is holding the gimbal without a steadicam arm which means you have to walk slowly with your Gimbal with a DSLR or else that small up and down movements will be seen on the lens. Using wide lenses helps but what really helps is onboard stabilization mixed with the gimbal. This is what we have in 2024 Gimbals mixed with onboard stabilization ( using over provisioning sensor/ phase shift area to balance the picture) This of course means we can not do long shots since all the weight is on our arm, this is why the steadicam arm is needed to isolate the camera in neutral space. A full steadicam kit with iso arm is still very expensive, but prices have come down over the years. This device was released in 1974 and Garret Brown was instructed by Tiffen to patent the device, we all know why they did this as Hollywood would be all over this device and it was clear right from the start that they would protect this device for decades. It was not until Chinese copies of smaller steadicam systems started to appear that Tiffen started to reduce their prices. Certain products are a no go since they are protected by big industries and it has been this way for centuries. What we needed was the Chinese to get into these systems and start selling them and this is really why they all started to come down in prices. The Chinese will not touch the top line iso arms and vests though as they do not want to go there. In my opinion this Device was protected for far too long (kept away from the public use).
@@danfuerthgillis4483 Close but your facts are still off. The original licensee of Steadicam was Cinema Devices, Tiffen took over in 2000 after CP went out of business. Apparently your belief is that the thousands of hours of R&D that went into developing and refining the Steadicam should have just been given away to the masses as if it was their birthright to have steadier amateur video. That's a philosophical debate. What actually may be relevant is that to achieve great results with Steadicam one needs to put in dozens and realistically hundreds of hours of practice, which nearly all of those people would have failed to do, let alone have the desire to lug around even a small sized vest and arm system to shoot their home videos. Gimbals deliver better results for the average person with no desire to put in that kind of time.
Anyone with a basic knowledge of physics could have built their own.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 You are literally typing on network technologies that go back to the mid 1980's that were given out to the public, many of them from the early 1990's that allowed you and me to have access to the internet topology. There were no idiotic patents to keep these technologies away from the public, that is why the Internet got to where it is today. The steadicam should never have been patented it is why it took 30+ years for anyone to even get around that patent and even then it was when Gimbals became cheaper for the masses that somehow Tiffen started to drop the prices on their products. The same moronic idiots at Red are also about to get their asses owned when their fake Red Code patent dies out in 2028, these are the jackasses who kept Raw recording away from the mass consumer since 2008. Cineform gave away FREE their Raw codec in order for the masses to have access to Intermediate codecs, Red Code is basically a wrapped up version of Jpeg2000 which was FREE TO THE PUBLIC and Cineform credits this as why the Cineform Codec came out. The Patent system needs to be changed, you simply can not sit on a patent for 30 years with no improvement so you can use it to monopolize certain markets. This is what Nikon vs Red is about we need Nikon to win against those morons so that they finally get exposed for the biggest lie in Codecs ever perpetrated. Garret Brown did not want to patent the Steadicam it was Tiffen who took the Steadicam and patented it. If you want to blame the stagnation of Stedicam devices in the last 30 years look at Tiffen they stiffled and sued anyone attempting to make a similar Steadicam device.
Works every time...
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1st Comment. Cool
thank you man