![]() But the Steadicam, as it would soon be called, would go on to revolutionize how movies were shot. The jerry-rigged, stabilizing mechanism was all but unknown. Joining the crew was Garrett Brown, a novice inventor who had just built a unique mounting system that allowed a movie camera to “float” freely while the DP gently guided it by hand. Avildsen patched together the largely improvised sequence on the spot. With the entire picture shot in 28 days on a $1.1 million budget, most of the training montage was filmed during a quick preproduction trip to Pennsylvania with a skeleton crew. ![]() Training montages had been done before, but perhaps for the first time this one helped move the story line forward and significantly developed the lead character. “Gonna fly now.gonnaa flyyyy now,” sings a soaring chorus on the soundtrack of John Avildsen’s Rocky (1976) as an underdog hero with hangdog eyes, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), jogs through the streets of Philadelphia, jabbing at the air to prepare for his big chance in the boxing ring. ![]() Training sequence ever might not have been possible without a great new invention-the Steadicam. In Rocky, John Avildsen’s guerrilla filmmaking on the streets of Philadelphia for perhaps the most famous ![]()
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