Garrett Brown

I think he loved to play in this space of trying out things that were new.

I mean, Michael was one of the first ones to use the Steadicam with Garrett, uh, Garrett Brown, who created the Steadicam.

He was one of the first to adopt that on, on television, use that for a, a football game or a baseball game or whatever the seri- the story was.

He was, uh, he was very, he, he was very interested in all of that.

Yeah.

[laughs] Uh, I have a very, very loose, uh, connection with Kubrick, only in that, um, I have a friendship with, uh, Garrett Brown, who's the, who invented the Steadicam, and of course, uh, was responsible for much of the look of The Shining, uh, because it was one of the first movies that used the Steadicam.

So, um, I've been fortunate enough to, through Garrett, hear many of hi- m- Garrett's a great storyteller, one of the best, and, uh, so I've been fortunate to be in the room when he's woven tales about his, uh, many adventures, uh, behind the Steadicam.

You know, of course, he, not only did he do, uh, The Shining, he did, uh, the speeder bikes for Return of the Jedi.

"It doesn't matter." And it just fills me with so much nostalgia, and just so much warmth, and just so much love.

It's just like a best friend, and I can't really explain it because that doesn't really make much sense for a film like this.

It's not an absolute stone cold classic, and it's not just-

Yeah

Right.

Yeah.

And it, it was invented by our old friend Garrett Brown, the same man who gave us-

Cool

Um, uh, you know, Bonnie, the script supervisor who knews, uh, knew where all the bodies were buried, uh, wonderful.

Um, yeah, uh, Garrett Brown who, who invented the Steadicam.

This was only the, the fourth film-

That's pretty wild, yeah

We started in the little facility, which you'll see across the way, and could originally make one or two zines a day.

Co-founder Garrett Brown first conceptualized the idea while visiting his father.

I was hanging with my dad and his cohort, and they're on wheelchairs and walkers, and nobody's very happy about either one of them.

And I looked at that and I said, there has to be something better.

Yeah.

The slasher movie sequence that is being dubbed at the beginning was shot by Garrett Brown on his invention, the Steadicam.

He was so skilled and fast on his feet with the rig that the crew struggled to keep up with him, including the focus puller.

When the slasher holds up the knife in front of the camera and stabs the security guard, that too is Garrett Brown holding the knife, as this was the only way to get that shot to work.

Wow.

Pretty cool.