28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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On the Pole
On the Pole

On the Pole

director: Richard Leacock, Robert Drew
original title: On the Pole
country: United States
year: 1960
running time: 58 min.

synopsis

This pillar of direct cinema captures the fame and death of race-car driver Eddie Sachs. It combines original with archival footage, black-and-white with colour film, and among other things makes use of sped-up images in order to achieve the same effect as in Primary. Again, the film tries to find the logic of the depicted events and to offer an objective take on them.

biography

Robert Drew (1924-2014) was one of the pioneers connected with film and journalism and the founder of Drew Associates. He explored new ways of working with handheld cameras and synchronous sound, the development of which he contributed to.
Richard Leacock (1921-2011), who worked with Robert Flaherty in his youth, was known first as an experimenter and later primarily as a cameraman at Drew Associates, practicing the concept of “live camera”.

more about film

director: Richard Leacock, Robert Drew
producer: Robert Drew, Time Inc. Broadcast Service
script: Robert Drew
photography: Donn Alan Pennebaker, Albert Maysles
editing: Anita Posner, Robert Galbraith, Robert Farren
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