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 was the utmost consideration in approaching all the visuals in this film,” says cinematographer Eric Steelberg, who used a moving camera and long takes to guide the audience through the meticulously crafted set. “We thought it was the best way to make people feel like they were there, beat by beat, minute by minute,
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