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* Also, ''[[Firefly]]'', and even in effects shots.
** According to [[Word of God|the DVD commentary]], in a lot of scenes the camera operator was operating without a steadicam harness, but was so good at operating handheld that it looked like he was using one.
** Supposedly, the reason the [[Star Trek Shake|shaking effect]] looks so real is that they could actually rock the ''Serenity'' sets back and forth.
* While we're at it, ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', too.
* Steadicam harnesses were repurposed for the Smart Guns in ''Aliens''.
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* Steadicam is the ''sine qua non'' of the [[Walk and Talk]], and hence are indispensable whenever [[Aaron Sorkin]] and Thomas Schlamme are on the other side of the camera. ''[[Sports Night]]'' and ''[[The West Wing]]'' were particularly notorious.
* ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' has a scene which starts with a establishing crane shot, which then descends down to ground level and proceeds to follow the walking cast without a cut. This was done by having the Steadicam operator simply standing on a platform and stepping off when the crane reached the ground.
* ''[[WALL-E]]'' was meticulously animated to contrast
* In ''[[Goodfellas]]'' director [[Martin Scorsese]] uses a steadicam for a three minute shot that follows Henry Hill and his girlfriend as they enter though the back door of the Copacapana restaurant, through the kitchen and up to the bar, stopping to meet patrons all the way.
* The Steadicam operator Peter Robertson reportedly collapsed after filming the epic [[The Oner|Oner]] on the Dunkirk beaches in ''[[Atonement]]''.
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