The Moving Camera - An Evening with Garrett Brown
“A Love Letter to the Movies—From the Guy Who Made Cameras See Like Humans!”
The Criterion Collection.
Garrett Brown’s Oscar-winning Steadicam revolutionized filmmaking.
He’s worked for Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, George Miller and many more, and his stories and video clips have enchanted film buffs worldwide.
A legend in Hollywood for forty years, Garrett still lives and works in Philadelphia and engages audiences everywhere with his popular and evolving lectures on The Moving Camera and Inventing for Life
“Garrett Brown came to Paris on 15 March 2019, to give a hilarious and brilliant lecture on ‘The Moving Camera’ at the Cinémathèque française. The auditorium was filled with film-lovers, young and old, and fifty french Steadicam Operators, full of admiration for the inventor of their cherished profession! Garrett gave us a memorable master class that day. And, amazingly, he continues always to innovate, search, find... The Cinémathèque française recognizes Garrett Brown as one of the greatest inventors of cinema in our time.”
Laurent Mannoni, Scientific Director and Curator, Cinémathèque française, Paris
Garrett and Stanley on The Shining
Bio:
Garrett Brown invented the Oscar-winning Steadicam camera stabilizer and used it on nearly 100 movies, including Rocky and The Shining.
The Steadicam liberated cinematography in 1975 by combining the smoothness of dollies and cranes with the remarkable agility of human beings.
And Garrett’s Skycam and his other sporting ’cams’ still pursue athletes worldwide and chased their inventor into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in ‘09
Brown’s inventions have revolutionized the way we experience the world through the camera’s eye; and the arty, athletic and lucrative profession of Steadicam Operator is known by whimsical acclaim as ‘The Last Great Job in the Business!’
Garrett’s original prototypes are now in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, his archives are headed to The Library of Congress, and a recent Steadicam improvement just earned him a fourth Oscar and fifth Emmy!
Surprisingly, Garrett is neither a scientist nor an engineer—just an extraordinarily motivated, at-times comically challenged, incredibly persistent human being. Even more surprising (to Brown at least) was his 2013 induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame!
Garrett Brown’s astonishing career will be celebrated in 2026 by a feature documentary from Executive Producer Francis Ford Coppola called Thank You, Mister Brown Trailer, and the publication in 2027 of Garrett’s untitled, eagerly-awaited memoir.
Contact lecture bureau/agent:
Elyssa Klein
American Program Bureau, Inc.
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