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.
Raising Arizona! The first movie where I literally fell out of my movie seat from laughing.
Also, quoted heavily when my friends had triplets.
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.
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.
Somebody should write a book about that...I'd totally read it.
We had HBO in the 1970s. They would only be on for half a day, coming online in the afternoon.
I remember when Nickelodeon and A&E shared a channel. Only because it was a weird transition from "Kid getting slimed" to "Whoa, opera singers,"
I feel you on apps as movies, Scola. ugh.
