Premium Members Kareem La Vaullee Posted January 8, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Thanks a lot David, Looks better ! K. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members David Allen Grove Posted January 8, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Thanks a lot David,Looks better ! K. :D No Problemo! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Peter Abraham Posted January 10, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 MINOR TWEAK to contest...( heh ( It was the Steadicam Operator seen somewhere in "Sweet Liberty". Not in "The Four Seasons". Carry on. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted January 10, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Oh, well that's easy! Larry McConkey was in "Sweet Liberty", doing roundy-rounds. If it isn't Ron Vidor in the Stunt Man, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Nelson Tyler donned the rig. Any extra credit for knowing that his crane setup that was featured in the movie was the Moxie Mount? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Peter Abraham Posted January 14, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 Yes. You do get extra credit. You're half way there, Charles...can't you just almost TASTE that tally light?? :P ( I'd no idea that was Nelson's crane rig. God, that is a great gag- and doesn't O'Toole look so very smooth sitting in it? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted January 14, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 Well, I'm a little baffled then. I had remembered that Nelson had a credit in the film but I swear on my cat's hide that I didn't look it up before posting--but I just now did. He's listed as "Eli's Crane Cameraman" and I'm recalling one or two shots of a character operating conventionally on the Moxie that looked very similar to the chap wearing the Steadicam and the white cap who was operating on the ground and also on the Moxie Mount (seated and body-mounted--ouch!) The only other thing I can think of would be the actor who played the operator in the film, but I always felt like the gent in the Steadicam wasn't much of a body double outside of the cap. What's more, the operating in the film itself was pretty good for circa 1978, but the operator as seen in the shot didn't appear to present the corresponding form. Can you tell that "The Stunt Man" is one of my all-time favorite movies?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Peter Abraham Posted January 14, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 14, 2004 Mine too. In film school at S.V.A. ( A year ahead of Jim Muro, but didn't know him there ), I owned the soundtrack. I owned the press kit. I owned the shooting script in an age when you couldn't pop down to Border's Books and buy a "script" to a popular movie. I wrote papers on this thing. You have to admit, those two long walk and talk shots, weaving in and around obstacles, and UNDER dark overhangs, on the way to and back from seeing dailies are lovely shots with any rig, at any time! On the other hand, the wide angle basic running shots in the chase scene in the opening do NOT smack of careful operating and the " Bits And Pieces" montage walking along the boardwalk next to that famous hotel also had workaday Steadicam shots but nothing stellar. Then again, this was 15 years before gyros were lashed to a sled, and perhaps the wind was a bitch on both of those days. I was leaning more towards Bob Crone, but now I'm stymied. Methinks some phone calls need to be made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Erwin Landau Posted January 15, 2004 Author Premium Members Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 I was leaning more towards Bob Crone, but now I'm stymied. Methinks some phone calls need to be made. That would have been my first choice... I remember having that discussion before... either on the old Steadicam Forum or it could have been that I read it in the AOL folders... Once you pass 30 the memory goes to shreds... Erwin"IMDB sucks..."Landau, SOC www.landaucamera.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted January 15, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 My two visits to the Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego are like visiting a shrine--other than being a fabulous building, it's THAT building! I had the delight of spending an incredible evening a couple of years ago watching "The Stunt Man" projected (alas, not a restored print) at the Egyptian Theatre, followed by the premiere of the two-hour documentary that Richard Rush made as a companion piece to the upcoming DVD release, followed then by a good hour and a half of Q&A with Rush and most of the cast who were present. You got the sense (which was echoed by the commentary track on the DVD) that for most of the actors, including Barbara Hershey, working on this film was a career high point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Peter Abraham Posted January 15, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 --Eyes huge, fingertips at edge of mouth in dumbfounded awe-- You....you....you....you witnessed this event???? Was Peter O'Toole present? Or was it Railsback, Hershey, Bail, et al? --Reaches out, touches the fringe of your frock-- God bless you, son. :P Me, I cannot wait to see the DVD with accompanying materials. The paper I wrote in "Music For Film" class on the Dominic Frontiere soundtrack of the movie got me an A. :) How apt, the tag line for that movie.... " IF GOD COULD DO THE TRICKS I COULD DO, HE'D BE A HAPPY MAN " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted January 15, 2004 Report Share Posted January 15, 2004 I think "The Stunt Man" has grown over the years to become one of the more studied works for the late 70s/early 80s. I did a college paper on it (along with "Cutter's Way," another great forgotten film of the time) that was all about the Vietnam vet as portrayed in cinema (don't get me started on that epic topic). Later I taught a college course and used The Stunt Man as a study of perspective and perceptions both in narrative structure and use of the camera. Certainly O'Toole swinging around on the Moxie Mount played a part in that discussion. Such a great movie, even if they did get the height of King Kong wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Charles Papert Posted January 16, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 Was Peter O'Toole present? Or was it Railsback, Hershey, Bail, et al? Rush, Railsback, Hershey, Alex Rocco, and Whitey Hughes, who played the AD was who I remember being there, but I think there may have been one or two more. It was a lovely evening. O'Toole couldn't make it. Around the same time, he was supposed to be doing a guest spot on "The West Wing" and apparently had visa trouble, which disappointed me to no end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickvanWeeren Posted January 26, 2004 Report Share Posted January 26, 2004 Sorry arrived a bit late but ehm... Do recognisable reflections count as well? Personally I'd love to turn up my green screen brightness whenever I see a window on the set. Quote Robert Duvall in 1979: That green glow...the whole screen.... nothing in the whole world glows like that.... it glows like victory... someday the ops are going to be in the frame son... Check out SPEED, You can actually see the reflection of the operator on the low bed truck next to the bus, (when the bus still has a reflection in the front sliding doors) Kind regards, Patrick van Weeren The Netherlands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guillermo nespolo Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 good himself ..on roky 1 u can see garret (all u selfcalled operator standdd uppp and salute) so u can see garret brown on a corner .....in the movie with his focus guy ....(its a wide shoot from abone the ring , and u get to see mr brown walking arround whit his white plastic vest from the old model 2 ( please some one seand a model 1 to him...) thanks ..... ps some one have a arri 3 low mode bracket.....(i fell like darwin looking for the missin link ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Members Peter Abraham Posted February 1, 2004 Premium Members Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 If I recall correctly, that was THE Prototype Steadicam sled. THE Prototype Steadicam vest. And, the arm? The first factory arm, designed by GB and Arnold DiGuilio. Chuck Jackson used to tell tales of having to recalibrate the springs each day, because the shooting the night before stretched them a bit and threw the arm out of true. The first set was steel, not titanium So, it wasn't a Model II. Or a Model I. Or a Steadicam 35. It was the Prototype....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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