Film homage Richard Leacock Happy Mother's Day 1963 Fischer Quints sign Aberdeen SD 1964-2008
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage Richard Leacock Happy Mother's Day 1963 Fischer Quints sign Aberdeen SD 1964-2008
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Richard Leacock co-directed this 26 minute "Direct Cinema" look at the immediate aftermath of the birth of the Fischer quintuplets in September 1963 in Aberdeen, South Dakota; the first birth of quints in the U.S.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZA1h2O0_oE&NR=1
The previous birth of quints had been the identical Dionne girls in Ontario, Canada in 1934. That had been a circus.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCmvQ2vdMv0
The cinematographer/director Richard Leacock is best known for his 14 months stint as cinematographer on Robert Flaherty's 1948 "Louisiana Story."
"I made Happy Mother's Day because I was broke, but when I saw what was happening to this family, I got really interested. The Saturday Evening Post editor loved it, but the publisher-producer did not like it. So, it got changed into this film about how nice it is to have quintuplets, and it was sponsored by a baby-food company."
"To hell with cinema. To hell with television. If I can make something with a video camera and show it to a few friends on DVD, what more do I want? The only trouble is, it's a bad way to make money."
"On the film, "Louisiana Story;" I saw that when we were using small cameras, we had tremendous flexibility, we could do anything we wanted and get a wonderful sense of cinema. The moment we had to shoot dialogue--lip sync--everything had to be locked down, the nature of the film changed."...Richard Leacock (1921-2011)
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