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- Richard Leacock was born on July 18, 1921 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Omnibus (1952), Canary Island Bananas (1935) and 1 P.M. (1971). He was married to Eleanor Burke and Valérie Lalonde. He died on March 23, 2011 in Paris, France.
- SpousesEleanor Burke(1941 - 1962) (divorced)Valérie Lalonde(? - March 23, 2011) (his death, 5 children)
- He and Ed Pincus founded a film school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he taught for 20 years. He moved to Paris, France in 1988.
- Read Physics at Harvard University from 1939 to 1942, spending a lot of time producing plays.
- Attended Bedales School in Hampshire, then Dartington Hall School in Devon from 1929 to 1938, afterwards helped to form a student film unit at Dartington.
- Grew up on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands till shipped off to school in England.
- Brother of Philip Leacock.
- 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.
- I am so concerned with sound, I am so deep in It! If I were shooting a mountain, I think I'd shoot it with perfect sound, in perfect sync. I may throw out the sound later--but I'd shoot it in sync nevertheless.
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