Greatest Uncut Steadicam Scenes Of All Time

The opening sequence from Grifters and the homage bar scene from Swingers spring to mind.

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How about the scene in Goodfellas where we're introduced to a variety of mob characters and ending with Henny Youngman? It was a tracking shot but not sure if it was a Steadicam shot.
 
That was pretty fun; a couple wipes concealed the stoppage I think but still impressive set piece

Great steadicam moments for me:

Snake Eyes
Goodfellas (Blaine, I liked the one where they enter the restuarant)
Magnolia
Bonfire of the Vanity's
Carlitos Way
Kill Bill V1

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Pesilence - the opening shot
 
A Very Long Engagement (the market scene, starting from a crane)

Boogie Nights (the beginning, also from a crane?, into the club, etc.)
 
John_Hudson said:
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Yup. Stunning (and long) opening Steadicam shot in Bonfire. On the golf cart, off the golf cart, up the elevator. Never timed it . . . wonder how long it was? Also, who could forget Garrett Brown's immaculate Steadicam licks in The Shining (especially the maze sequence where he had to walk backwards into the actor's footprints in the snow).

Also, Bound for Glory (1976). Again, Steadicam inventor, Garrett Brown, operates his vest-mounted Steadicam as he descends from a crane--he then walks off the crane, and continues the shot through a crowd scene at ground-level.
 
THE PROTECTOR (TOM YUM GOONG) The staircase fight scene was incredibly technical and a flawless aquisition. Top notch stunts also, i feel for the guys who went over the side.
 
John_Hudson said:
That was pretty fun; a couple wipes concealed the stoppage I think but still impressive set piece
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Sorry John no wipes in the actual movie; bootube can't do this justice watch it widescreen. Just rent it or buy it.
 
Pretty much anything PT Anderson does with a Steadicam is gold:

Boogie Nights
- The famous opening shot: 3 minutes long, introduces us to all of the major characters
- The pool scene: we see all the characters hanging out around the pool, then we follow one of them into the pool
- New Years: We see a man make two decisions, but I'm not going to spoil any of that

Magnolia
- From the car, into the television studio, down the hall, follow the dad into the green room, go back around to Stanley, follow him up an elevator, down a hall, into the main stage

Punch-Drunk Love
- Adam Sandler talking on the phone in his home for an extended period of time. Not so technically impressive, but we do see 360 and there's some nice Matte-box tapping quirks thrown in as well.

Also, the film Nine Lives by Rodrgio Garcia has nine vignettes about nine women, each of which is about 13 minutes long, in one take, on a steadicam. This is really impressive stuff. A whole film mag. My personal favourite is a sequence in which we follow a couple from the courtyard of an apartment complex, into the lobby, up an elevator (I love elevators), down an incredibly long hallway, into their friend's apartment, through all of the rooms of the apartment, where we end in the living room, they sit down, and a mirror directly in front of the camera lets us see all four people sitting down without the camera man getting in the way.
 
I keep thinking of my favorites (D.O.A., 1950 version, opening shot; The Player, opening shot) and then realize, "Nope, doesn't count--crane or dolly."

But I'm actually going to have to give a nod to Stephen Spielberg on this one. The shot in Catch Me If You Can when Leo discovers his mom with another man--amazing. Sometimes I wonder if there was a way to tell if the talent was in SS or in Janusz Kaminski--who has shot some wonderful stuff in his career.
 
How about Pride & Predjudice, the new version... the steadicam shot at the ball left me breathless...

Also... the opening shot from Poseidon was pretty awesome too!

And who can forget the shot in the horrorfest short, Broken Circle?
 
Was the opening of The Player steadicam or was it all on a crane?(i can't remember, I just remember it was memorable - if that makes sense).

I'd love to watch the behind the scenes of the steadicam shot in Kill Bill vol.1

There's a really really good one in Running Scared '06. It's at the pedaphile house where the mom is running all over searching for the kid. It ends with the steadicam op getting hoisted by a rope into a birds eye view shot from the ceiling.

Worst steadicam shot - Russian Ark.
 
The Player was either a crane or the mother-of-all jibs, but way too mechanical to be steadycam.

But amen to the Russian Arc slam. Interesting idea--but there's a reason it's not done more often.
 
"Serenity" had a terrific steadicam shot following Mal Reynolds through the ship as he interacts with the various crew members. It was two shots joined into one in post, mostly because the two floors of the spaceship were two different sets. It wasn't a particularly flashy shot, just an elegant way of establishing the geography of the ship and the relationships between most of the main characters.
 
Some Callaghan Favorites

-#1 is hands down the Normandy Invasion scene from Saving Private Ryan

-The various steadicam (battle) uses in Band of Brothers also rank right up there

-The Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom bridge scene is another of my favorites

-The Shining (the Jack-tracking shots were scary as all hell)

-Titanic (the scenes with Rose especially)

-The Abyss (especially impressive considering the confined scenes with Ed Harris)

-Pulp Fiction (two words "foot massage")






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Actually, my list is of those that I consider to be the greatest uses of the steadicam...and not necessarily uncut shots.

For actual uncut scenes, Goodfellas is the undisputed king ding-a-ling​
 
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