RICHARD LEACOCK
July 18, 1921-March 23, 2011
RICHARD LEACOCK (R)
Tells an obviously riveting story to
Nina Bernstein (far L) & others
Boston, October 11, 2006
A still photograph taken of
Richard Leacock's film
"BERNSTEIN IN MOSCOW"
in which
The passing on Wednesday of documentary filmmaker Richard "Ricky" Leacock has been reported. He was praised for pioneering the cinema verite technique. A former Harvard physics student, he developed technical means for syncing sight and sound outside the studio. But he was also noted, according to Martin Scorsese, for his "remarkably sensitive, quick camera eye."
Leacock's account of how he came to filmmaking holds a special note of interest to me. Sent off to boarding schools in England when he was eight, he first tried still photography to show his new schoolmates "what it was like to live in the Canary Islands," site of his father's banana plantation. It was not until he saw a silent film when he was eleven that he had his Eureka! moment, and decided on that "a cine-camera" was what he needed to really do the job.
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