Film homage Richard Leacock Happy Mother's Day 1963 Fischer Quints sign Aberdeen SD 1964-2008 Acrylic Print
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage Richard Leacock Happy Mother's Day 1963 Fischer Quints sign Aberdeen SD 1964-2008 acrylic print by David Lee Guss. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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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... more
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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 mak...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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