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Richard Leacock (18 July 192123 March 2011)〔(''Richard Leacock – Obituary'' ). The Telegraph (London), 24 March 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2011.〕 was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema and Cinéma vérité. ==Early life and career== Leacock was born in London on 18 July 1921, the younger brother of film director and producer Philip Leacock. Leacock grew up on his father's banana plantation in the Canary Islands until being sent to boarding schools in England at the age of eight. He took up photography with a glass plate camera, built a darkroom and developed his pictures, but was not satisfied. At age 11 he was shown a silent film ''Turk-Sib'' about the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway. He was stunned, and said to himself: "All I need is a cine-camera and I can make a film that shows you what it is like to be there." At the age of 14 he wrote, directed, filmed and edited ''Canary Bananas'' (10 min. 16mm, silent), a film about growing bananas,〔http://richardleacock.com/Canary-Bananas〕 but it did not, in his opinion, give you "the feeling of being there". He was educated at Dartington Hall School from 1934 to 1938, alongside Robert Flaherty's daughters, and where David Lack (''Life of the Robin'') taught biology. Having filmed in the Canary Islands and then in the Galapagos Islands (1938–39) for ornithologist David Lack's expedition, he moved to the US and majored in physics at Harvard to master the technology of filmmaking. Meanwhile, he worked as cameraman and assistant editor on other peoples films, notably (''To Hear Your Banjo Play'' (1941) ), filming a folk music festival atop a mountain in south Virginia where there was no electricity, with a 35mm studio camera and 35mm optical film sound recorder using batteries in a large truck, a rare achievement at that time. Three years as a combat photographer in Burma and China were followed by 14 months as cameraman on Robert Flaherty's ''Louisiana Story'' (1946–48). In the meantime, Leacock had married Eleanor "Happy" Burke in 1941. Daughter of the world-famous literary critic, philosopher, and writer Kenneth Burke, she had studied at Radcliffe College, but graduated from Barnard in New York City. The Leacocks had four children together: Elspeth, Robert, David and Claudia. After ethnographic fieldwork with the Innu (Montagnais-Naskapi) of Labrador, Eleanor Leacock (1922–1987) earned her doctorate in anthropology at Columbia University (1952). Ten years later, after her marriage broke up, she went on to become a pioneering feminist anthropologist.〔("Eleanor Burke Leacock: Biography" ). Kristin Alten, May 1998. Retrieved 4 April 2011.〕 In 1963 he married Marilyn Pedersen West, a painter, writer, and fashion model, who worked for social causes. They had a daughter Victoria. In 1970 they separated, and remained separated until her death in 1980. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Leacock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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