Richard Leacock Movies

  • 1964
    Lambert & Co.

    Lambert & Co.

    Lambert & Co.

    4.51964HD

    Jazz vocalist Dave Lambert auditions a new group of singers at RCA Studios in 1964.

    Lambert & Co.
  • 1977
    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    01977HD

    Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

    Centerbeam
  • 1960
    Yanki No!

    Yanki No!

    Yanki No!

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    After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.

    Yanki No!
  • 1963
    A Happy Mother's Day

    A Happy Mother's Day

    A Happy Mother's Day

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    In 1963 the first known surviving set of American quintuplets were born to Mary Ann and Andrew Fischer, this film looks at some of the changes their...

    A Happy Mother's Day
  • 1961
    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

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    The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race...

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1991
    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

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    Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful,...

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock
  • 2010
    A Boatload of Wild Irishmen

    A Boatload of Wild Irishmen

    A Boatload of Wild Irishmen

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    Robert Flaherty is credited with being the father of the modern documentary after making "Nanook of the North" and classics such as "Man of Aran" and...

    A Boatload of Wild Irishmen
  • 2011
    BodySongs

    BodySongs

    BodySongs

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    The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

    BodySongs
  • 1954
    Toby and the Tall Corn

    Toby and the Tall Corn

    Toby and the Tall Corn

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    Toby is a heartwarming and entertaining portrait of one of the last travelling variety shows in the United States. Every summer, Toby, the troupe's...

    Toby and the Tall Corn
  • 1935
    Canary Island Bananas

    Canary Island Bananas

    Canary Island Bananas

    01935HD

    Filmed on his father's plantation, Leacock’s sophisticated use of pans and tilts described the process of planting, harvesting, and shipping...

    Canary Island Bananas
  • 1999
    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    01999HD

    Flora Natapoff, known for her large collages of urban and industrial motifs, due to MS begins to work on a smaller scale that is no less powerful....

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter
  • 1962
    Mooney vs. Fowle

    Mooney vs. Fowle

    Mooney vs. Fowle

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    The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High...

    Mooney vs. Fowle
  • 1962
    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    01962HD

    A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost
  • 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
  • 1965
    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    01965HD

    A documentary on the KKK

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire
  • 1970
    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

    01970HD

    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
  • 1984
    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock

    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock

    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock

    01984HD

    A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    01975HD

    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