I always thought the first film to use it was Rocky.
Right. Sir. Honey.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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Tom Scola - Aug 24, 2010 5:30:53 am PDT #10876 of 30000
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tommyrot - Aug 24, 2010 5:33:02 am PDT #10877 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, which movie was the first to use the not-quite-as-revolutionary Wobblycam?
A: Evil Dead
DavidS - Aug 24, 2010 6:29:58 am PDT #10878 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Digital Video Disc? That's the only one I can even guess on.
You'd think, right? But no.
HBO? Sometime in the seventies, but without shows, just movies and boxing.
You're right. 1972. So early.
I'd heard it was first used for The Shining (for the scene where the camera is following the kid on the Big Wheel). But that was 1980, and the whitefonted answer is earlier.
My favorite steadicam shot of all time is the Huggies chase in Raising Arizona, though there's another good back yard chase in Point Break.
amyth - Aug 24, 2010 6:50:10 am PDT #10879 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Raising Arizona! The first movie where I literally fell out of my movie seat from laughing.
Also, quoted heavily when my friends had triplets.
erikaj - Aug 24, 2010 6:53:49 am PDT #10880 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Dag...I don't think I met anyone who had it till, say, 1980. I still remember my mind being blown that this guy my dad knew *played movies* in *his house*...I think he got indicted for fraud eventually(not for cable theft, but because things that later became known as the "subprime mortgage crisis" used to be known as "selling real estate in Arizona in the eighties") My dad can really pick an awesome mentor, huh? But he had the Chris Reeve Superman in his house.
DavidS - Aug 24, 2010 7:00:52 am PDT #10881 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dag...I don't think I met anyone who had it till, say, 1980.
Ditto. I think I remember being conscious of it in the late seventies because of major boxing matches, but in my mind it's an 80s thing. I'm just boggled that they had the financing to survive for so long before they took off.
I'd be interested in a history of HBO, particularly the era when they went to the challenging shows starting with Oz. They really reinvented TV with that stretch: Oz, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Sex in the City. But I don't really know who was responsible for that or HBO's process.
erikaj - Aug 24, 2010 7:12:17 am PDT #10882 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Somebody should write a book about that...I'd totally read it.
Daisy Jane - Aug 24, 2010 7:16:23 am PDT #10883 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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Tom Scola - Aug 24, 2010 7:16:31 am PDT #10884 of 30000
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We had HBO in the 1970s. They would only be on for half a day, coming online in the afternoon.
Tom Scola - Aug 24, 2010 7:39:33 am PDT #10885 of 30000
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