| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-01-01 | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
Publisher's Note
A new paperback edition of the story of Jack Cardiff's life in films, first as a camerman and then as a director, including his early use of the new Technicolour film camera and recreating his days on the music hall circuit during the 1920s and 30s with anecdotes about his experiences photographing the world's beautiful actresses.
Industry Reviews
"Every twilight brings a special moment, a brief blur of lengthening shadows, of shifting visual moods as he remains of the day surrender to night's darkness. Much of Jack Cardiff's life has been spent gazing dreamily at this, the 'magic hour' of his title, and pondering the wisdom of Sophocles: 'One must wait until evening, to see how splendid the day was.' As both cinematographer (literally, he who 'writes with movement') and a photographer (he who 'writes with light'), Cardiff knows that his eighties are his own 'magic hour', the perfect time for the cameraman--he who 'paints with light'--to edit the rushes of a life as richly coloured and textured as if he himself had placed the lights, pointed the camera and pulled the focus on each passing day....More than a celebration of cinema's 'dream warehouse', Cardiff's memoir is a striking human document. As the travelogue of a renaissance man, and as proof that everyone's life is their own best screenplay, it is certainly worth a 'magic hour' or two as dusk enfolds the day."
Holden
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