‘Saturday Night’ DP Eric Steelberg Explains the Choreography of That Crucial Opening Shot

Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night” opens with a roughly 3 1⁄2-minute single shot in which the camera quickly weaves through Studio 8H, capturing the chaos and energy as the now-iconic NBC series “Saturday Night Live” prepared to go “live from New York” for the Oct. 11, 1975, premiere. “The accuracy of what it felt like to be there […]