Garrett Brown

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Garrett Brown (born April 6, 1942 in Long Branch , New Jersey ) is an American cameraman who is best known for the development of the Steadicam . His son Jonathan Brown is also a cameraman.

Life

Brown's invention revolutionized the use of cameras in film and television productions in the mid-1970s. The Steadicam allows a cameraman to film while he is moving on foot without the image blurring through the steps, as is usually the case with a handheld camera. The steadicam system was first used in Hal Ashby's 1976 film This Land is My Land , which received an Oscar nomination for the technique. After that, the system was used in films like Rocky , where the running and training sequences were filmed this way. Also in the movie Return of the Jedithe steadicam was used. For a characteristic scene in the film, Garrett walked through a forest on the steadicam, which recorded at one film exposure per second. This later led to the illusion of high speed from the subjective point of view of the speeder bikes when the film was played at normal speed. The system was also used extensively in Stanley Kubrick's film Shining (1980). Brown's steadicam system has now been used in hundreds of movies and commercials.

Brown has also developed the rail-guided GoCam (to track runners), the rope-hung Skycam (for football games), the DiveCam (to track divers underwater), and the MobyCam (to track professional swimming underwater).

Awards (selection)

In 1999 he was honored with the Oscar for technical merit . In 1978 he had already received the Academy Award of Merit . In 2006 he received the Oscar for Science and Development .

The American Society of Cinematographers honored him with the ASC President's Award in 2002 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garrett Brown , short biography on sportsvideo.org
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Garrett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Branch , New Jersey , United States