Jack Cardiff

[theuofc]

I came across this on YouTube. It's been up for a year and although many have probably seen it, I thought it'd be fitting to place it here as well. Here's to you, Jack.

A Road in India (1938) technicolor photography by Jack Cardiff



Barbara

[theuofc]

[Steve Crook]

I came across this on YouTube. It's been up for a year and although many have probably seen it, I thought it'd be fitting to place it here as well. Here's to you, Jack.

A Road in India (1938) technicolor photography by Jack Cardiff



Barbara

That's part of the World Window series
"One day, in the autumn of 1936, a Cadillac coupé parked in front of the Technicolor building. Out of it emerged an émigré from Germany’s Third Reich, Count von Keller, and his wife, wealthy, amateur 16mm travelogue filmmakers. They had come to the company with their wealth and naïveté to engage a three-strip cameraman to help them produce a series of ambitious travel films in this new color process, short fims intended for the commercial market." (from "Magic Hour")

Jack and Keller travelled around the world filming all sort of people and places with a Technicolor camera. Chris Challis acted as operator on quite a few of their trips. There are extracts from their trips to Vesuvius & Pompeii, the markets in Morocco and a Bedouin tribe in Craig McCall's documentary about Jack.

The films acted as a good ad for Technicolor because with Jack in charge they were often a lot more creative than simply pointing the camera at something

Steve

[Rick C]

Mini-feature on Jack Cardiff's involvement in the Cinerama process in the 1950's production "Holiday in Spain":

Widescreen Museum - The Todd-AO / 70mm Wing 12

Readers will need to scroll down two-thirds of the page linked to get the exact item.

*Calling our Diana Dors boffin:this one's for you too!

[Steve Crook]

Mini-feature on Jack Cardiff's involvement in the Cinerama process in the 1950's production "Holiday in Spain":

Widescreen Museum - The Todd-AO / 70mm Wing 12

Readers will need to scroll down two-thirds of the page linked to get the exact item.

*Calling our Diana Dors boffin:this one's for you too!

Holiday in Spain, also known as Scent of Mystery. The first, and last, film in Smell-o-Vision - an attempt to let the cinema audience smell what the people on the screen were smelling by wafting various smells through the cinema. The trouble was that the previous smells still lingered when the next one was blown in so it ended up just smelling of everything

Steve

[Steve Crook]

Here's the latest from director Craig McCall about his wonderful documentary Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff - still on its world tour

Steve


CAMERAMAN: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff has its UK broadcast première on FILM4, this Friday April 22nd (Good Friday) as part of the 'Films For Life' season. It will be followed by two of Jack's Technicolor classics 'Black Narcissus' and 'The African Queen'. Jack received his first Oscar in 1947 for 'Black Narcissus'.

On the big screen the Cinematheque in Vancouver, Canada will be running a season of Jack Cardiff films in April around multiple screenings of CAMERAMAN. It also opens in Melbourne in April and in New York City at the Quad Cinema on May 13th.

For fans in Europe, CAMERAMAN has been sold to France and Germany and we will keep you posted as it rolls out in those countries and others.

Go to www.jackcardiff.com for the latest details or click the venue below.

Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio
21st April at 7:00PM

UK Broadcast Premiere on FILM4 Terrestrial TV
22nd April 1.00 PM followed by Black Narcissus & The African Queen.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne
23rd & 25th April, 1st & 2nd May

Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, Canada
28th April - 2nd May
Playing in tandem with the documentary are three of the cinematographer's supreme achievements:
The Red Shoes, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, and Black Narcissus.

360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival in Rochester, New York
1st May at 11:00 AM

Quad Cinema in New York City
13th May - Opens

Lemmle's Music Hall 3 in Los Angeles, California
3rd June - Opens

www.jackcardiff.com.
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[mrs_emma_peel]

Just watched and recorded Camerman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff ... on Film4 ... what a superb documentary ... what an inspired craftsman and what a wonderful, delightfiul, true gentle-man Jack Cardiff was.

Jack was camerman on two of my all-time favourite British films The Red Shoes and Scott of the Antarctic ... Jack's brilliant use of colour, colour tones, b/w, light, shade, shadow and filters was absolutely astonishing ... the ballet sequences in The Red Shoes, where not only the ballet action performances are beautufully shot, but also the unique tight close-ups ... feeling you are inside Moira Shearer's head and thoughts as she performs a phenomenal series of scintillating fast spins, are masterpieces of cinematography.


What a magnificent, beautiful dancer Moira Shearer was.

I loved Jack's personal photgraphic portrait studies of Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe ... stunning works of art.



This was one of the finest documentary films I've ever seen.
Emma

[Steve Crook]

It's a feature length documentary that leaves you wanting more. Jack was such a lovely man, and he did so much, the documentary could have been twice as long without being boring. It's no wonder it took 10 years to make it. That's how Craig was able to catch so many people who are no longer with us.

As for The Red Shoes, after the start of the main ballet it does show you what a ballet is like from the dancer's point of view. It's not just a filmed record of a staged ballet, they created a new art form - the filmic ballet. They did some tricks that you could never do on stage, like Moira jumping into the red shoes or changing the camera speed slightly to make Massine pause at the top of his jump a little bit longer than is possible for anyone limited by gravity.

They give you a preview of that in that clip. The way they show the pirouettes from the dancer's point of view with those swish pans. Clever stuff

For Scott of the Antarctic Jack has said before how some exteriors were shot in Norway, some in the Arctic and he had to match all of those to what he filmed in the studio. The light and the colours were totally different in each batch of film. But the results, after Jack had worked on them, are amazing

Steve