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Garrett Brown
American cinematographer · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1942 · age 84
Garrett Wood Brown is an American inventor, best known as the creator of the Steadicam. Brown's invention allows camera operators to film while walking without the normal shaking and jostles of a handheld camera.
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The Steadicam was first used in the Hal Ashby film Bound for Glory (1976), receiving an Academy Award, and has since been used on such films as Rocky, filming Rocky's running and training sequences, and Return of the Jedi, where Brown walked through a redwood forest with the Steadicam shooting film at 1 frame per second to achieve the illusion of high speed motion during the speeder-bike chase.
