About Richard Leacock
Richard Leacock was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of direct cinema and cinéma vérité. They then took their design to RCA who showed interest; and after receiving money from LIFE magazine, Drew and Leacock were able to make the first model and shoot their film Primary. After the screening, a monk in robes came up to them and said "You have invented a new form. Many relatively conventional jobs followed, until 1954, when Leacock was asked to make a reportage on a traveling tent theater in Missouri: the first film he had written directed, photographed, and edited himself since Canary Bananas.
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