Today's episode features Katie Bird, an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, El Paso, who researchestechnology and craft histories in Hollywood film production. We discuss her video essay, "Feeling and Thought as They Take Form: Early Steadicam, Labor, and Technology (1974-1985),” published in theJournal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies. Bird emphasizes the operator's role in this unique technology's early history in both major films likeThe ShiningandHalloween, as well as demo reels, industrial works, and more. She emphasizes how the choices of the operators—both physically and affectively, often referringto their own work closer to dancing—ultimately shaped the images we saw and how we respond to them. Bird challenges viewers to see the craft as labor beyond just invisibility, appreciating the art of production at every step.