Vintage Vest. Can you identify it?

[Matthew Hutchens]

I just picked up an old vest on ebay thinking to make a speedrail vehicle mount with the socket block. When I received it I became very curious as to where it falls in the timeline of vests and if it's the oringal steadicam vest. I found the attached picture of Garrett Brown wearing a very similar vest in The Shining. I noticed the Logo in the picture on the front of the vest and peeled back the velcro over the font of mine to find the same Brown steadicam logo.

[Tom Rogers]

Its an original model 1

[Matthew Hutchens]

Nice. Thanks!

[Mikael Kern]

Is there a serial number?

[Matthew Hutchens]

Is there a serial number?

 

Not that I could find. unless it's under some of the velcro there's no marking on the vest aside from the brown logo. Would love to know who it had belonged to.

[Thomas Gottschalk]

I think what you refer to as the "brown-logo" is the logo of "CP", "Cinema Products Inc.". The company that manufactured the first steadicams together with Garrett Brown.

[NIcolas Gril]

I have a similar vest that I use...it is a Cinema Products vest, indeed. Mine is slightly different tho

[Alec Jarnagin SOC]

The white plastic.... Original Model 1 vest manufactured by Cinema Products in the late 1970s. The black plastic waist piece would be a replacement likely made by Peter Abraham. If not modified, there should be "jumper straps" in the back that connect the lower section to the upper section for more support. Amazingly, they got so much right about this vest - the GPI PRO vest has many of the same features. I used a Model 1 vest for years (and still own it as backup) until I bought a PRO vest.