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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 5, 2010

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

69%

Original Title

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Production Companies

Modus Operandi Films, UK Film Council

Director

Craig McCall

Description

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.