The Steadicam is a body-mounted camera-stabilization rig that changed the way movies were shot — and on May 1st the man who designed the device will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Garrett Brown, who created the original Steadicam rig in 1972, recently told NPR that he decided to create the device because he loved the stable look that could be achieved when using dollies to move a camera, but found them awkward and cumbersome. "We sort of have a stabilizer in our heads, if you think about it," he told NPR. "The brain just smooths it all out for you, you know? So why should it look worse when you pick up a camera and try to walk?"
The device has since became a mainstay of film production. If you've seen the long...
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