Richard Leacock Movies

  • 1980
    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan

    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan

    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan

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    This 23-minute, 16mm color film by Nancy V. Raine (Producer/Co-Director) and Richard Leacock (Co-Director/Cinematographer) is a poetic, lyrical,...

    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan
  • 1957
    American Football

    American Football

    American Football

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    A coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an...

    American Football
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

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    Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

    Solstice and Solyanka
  • 1984
    Lulu in Berlin

    Lulu in Berlin

    Lulu in Berlin

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    Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....

    Lulu in Berlin
  • 2012
    Ricky on Leacock

    Ricky on Leacock

    Ricky on Leacock

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    A 38-year journey that the director began in 1972 as a young filmmaker and, shooting off and throughout many years, the director filmed many and...

    Ricky on Leacock
  • 1959
    A Magnet Laboratory

    A Magnet Laboratory

    A Magnet Laboratory

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    In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when...

    A Magnet Laboratory
  • 1935
    Canary Island Bananas

    Canary Island Bananas

    Canary Island Bananas

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    A short documentary made by Richard Leacock at the age of fourteen on his father’s banana plantation in the Canary Islands. Inspired by Soviet...

    Canary Island Bananas
  • 1968
    Chiefs

    Chiefs

    Chiefs

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    Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch...

    Chiefs
  • 1970
    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

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    In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth...

    Queen of Apollo
  • 2011
    BodySongs

    BodySongs

    BodySongs

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    The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

    BodySongs
  • 1972
    Tread

    Tread

    Tread

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    Tread