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...STEPHEN LEACOCK, humorist and economist...
Drew, a reporter for Life Magazine, theorized—while a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1955—about filmmaking that used candid footage to present news. Using the shoulder-held, synchronized-sound camera newly invented by his associates Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker, he turned theoretical writing into 16mm film. Condensed to 26 minutes and relegated to local stations owned by the Time-Life corporation, Primary was a commercial flop, but its frank and intimate portrayal of political maneuvering and its use of new technology made cinematic history...
...says she found photography, however, too distant and impersonal a medium. Nair then experimented in making films under the tutelage of the Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti and MIT’s Richard Leacock, who are considered among the founders of Cinema Verite, in their documentary film classes...
Early in this century, the humorist Stephen Leacock said the American innocent must prove his folksy virtue by being semi-inarticulate, mouthing things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...
Stein, too, says that a "school of film makers" influenced the Boston-Cambridge area. Leacock and Ed Pinkus, both at MIT, "taught a lot of people who sub sequently taught at Harvard...