American Cinematographer - August 1993 - 10

At Clairmont:
another
three custom
tools you
may not know
about

We've made lots of these things.
If you need an unusual

accessory, ask-we may already
have it. If not, we'll
be happy to build it, free, rent it
to you and add it to
our

inventory of helpful tools.

Director/Cameraman Don Guy

showed us a photo of Jon Fauer's
SledCam and asked whether we could
make

something like it. Director of Pho¬
tography Jon Fauer had the SledCam
made to shoot CBS promos on ice for the
1992 Winter Olympics. It had one
central handle and ice skates that tilted.

Don Guy wanted one with wheels, to
shoot extreme low angles of an outdoor
basketball game for a Kellogs commer¬

cial; intense, fast-moving action. He
going to dolly on asphalt, so we used
model airplane wheels with pneumatic
rubber tires. (We can also let you have
narrower, solid wheels for use on carpet.)
was

You

can

mounts;

have all four wheels

on

swivel

two swiveling and two fixed
straight ahead; or all four fixed.
If you want to go in a straight
line fast, four fixed works best.
Changing a wheel takes less
than a minute and no tools.
or

The handle arms can be set
to any fixed angle from vertical
to horizontal. Alternatively,

set them so changing
angle during the shot tilts

you can
arm

The
SkateCam

the

camera

while all four wheels

stay on the ground. You can
also pan the camera as the SkateCam moves in a straight line.



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