Filmmaking / Directing : 12 Stanley Kubrick Strategies For Perfecting a Film by Richard "RB" Botto

Thanks Richard a few weeks back a member was going crazy telling me that Bound For Glory was the first steady cam film...and today I found this LOLOLOLOL...thank you... here read it......"Long before James Cameron was inventing new filmmaking technologies to complete Titanic and Avatar, Kubrick was a technical innovator. During the making of Barry Lyndon, Kubrick decided he wanted to light portions of the film with only candles. He bought three of the ten lenses that NASA used to take pictures of the moon in the 1960s. He then attached the lenses to his own cameras so that he could get the shots with the lighting he wanted. This is the section...that refers to STEADYCAM ...enjoy The Shining is often cited as one of the first films to make good use of the Steadicam. It was especially noteworthy because the camera was often following around a young boy on a tricycle, which was much more low to the ground than Steadicams had previously been. The crew used a wheelchair specially designed to assist with many of the shots." October 30, 2013 - 10:30am Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/53389/12-stanley-kubrick-strategies-perfe... LOLOLOL...so it was the STEADY TRICYCLE and STEADY WHEEL CHAIR SHOT that started it all...:) LOLOLOl Blessings to all...

You might like to see David Leans use of a wheelchair-cam when the lead (John Howard Davies) is running down the alley and gets knocked out in Oliver Twist. By the way, Davies died this August....

It is really entertaining to read about these 'big shots' and how they are really just inventive souls, who 'wing it' to get a look never seen before. Reminds me of the blacksmith who turns Doctor and comes up with a prosthesis.

Working with production designers helps.....

I love 'Killer's Kiss', especially the dream sequence as a negative and the roof top chase. :^)

This is a great source for information about Kubrick, either in the native Italian or the linked English version. http://www.archiviokubrick.it/english/index.html Some of his earlier films are really rather interesting. "Day of the Fight", "Flying Padre" and "The Seafarers" are all worth seeing and looking for the bits of genius hinting at the future. I always try to get more info from people I know who worked with Kubrick. Everyone who worked with him has stories. Those stories keep adding to the sense of who Kubrick was.

A few more comments on 'Killer's Kiss.' The black & white night photography of New York just knocks me out and the desperate fight scene in the mannequin storage room is pure noir. I doubt a remake could ever surpass this little gem of a movie. :^)

Randall you are absolutely right, the New York scenes are superb and the use of the negative of daytime footage for the dream sequence was inspired. As soon as I single out any one of Kubrick's pictures for specific praise, other scenes from his other pictures start to jump up and down in my mind and seem to say, "what about me"? The mannequin storage immediately brought to mind the Korova milk bar in A Clockwork Orange. All of his pictures are so great they make a wonderful treasure trove of reference material for how to approach a story point. "What would Stanley do" is a reasonable starting point to any film-making question.

Thanks Andrew. As a still photographer I am more partial to his black & white films, but I so agree with you on studying his point of view. :^)