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- Cardiff invented new ways to use the camera to create Technicolor masterpieces such as The Red Shoes. And his painterly use of light and color continues to influence many filmmakers, as shown in a new documentary about him called Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff.
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May 27, 2011 · Jack Cardiff, one of the most influential cinematographers in film history, is now the subject of a documentary. Cameraman explores Cardiff's 90 years in the movie business, from his...
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Jack Cardiff OBE (18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more than half a century later.
Jack began in the film industry in 1918 as a child actor aged just four, but quickly switched to the other side of the camera, graduating to cinematography and for a period direction, gaining over a hundred film credits on productions as diverse as The Red Shoes and Rambo. In the process Jack Cardiff had a profound and lasting influence on ...
Jan 24, 2003 · From his most recent work creating a montage scene for a forthcoming film by Christopher Coppola, his positive attitude towards digital filmmaking and his disgust at today’s advertising industry, all the way back to 1918 when he first went on set as a child actor, listening to the history of Cardiff’s life is also listening to a history of ...
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Feb 10, 2011 · Since its May 2010 unveiling in London as part of a Cardiff tribute organized by the British Film Institute, the film — which cost almost $1 million, much of it from McCall’s own pockets ...
Cardiff worked a variety of jobs, including camera operator, in the British film industry at the advent of sound, and he was the principle photographer on his first full-length picture, Powell and Pressburger’s extraordinary A Matter of Life and Death , in 1946. He worked with many incredible directors, including Hitchcock, Huston, Hathaway ...
May 13, 2011 · While Powell was finding funding for The Tales of Hoffmann, Cardiff was marching out to Hollywood, finding work with Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Huston, Henry Hathaway. He also shot a lot of Hollywood pictures abroad, like King Vidor’s War and Peace at Cinecittá in Italy, and Mankiewicz’s The Barefoot Contessa in Spain.
