The Steadicam was first used in the Hal Ashby film Bound for Glory (1976), receiving an Academy Award (Best Cinematography), and since used on such films as Rocky, filming Rocky's running and training sequences, and Return of the Jedi, where Brown walked with the Steadicam shooting film at 1 frame per second to achieve the illusion of high speed motion during the speeder bike chase.
For many years film-maker Hal Ashby unsuccessfully attempted to make a film adaptation of this book.
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Its fourteen songs include hits such as "Father and Son" and "Where Do the Children Play?" as well as two previously unreleased tracks from the Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins black comedy Harold and Maude (1971).
Second-Hand Hearts is a film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay by Charles Eastman.
The film, directed by Hal Ashby and written by Colin Higgins, shows a scene during the song, where one of the lead characters, Harold, is driving, and then, the camera, from above, shows him driving past first one little white grave stone, and then pans out to a large area of the identical war-time gravestones, until, panning even further, the number of little tiny white graves is nearly overwhelming, and underscores the point of the song.