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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...
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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