- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; illustrated edition edition (15 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571197930
- ISBN-13: 978-0571197934
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,318,902 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This gentle account of a life in film is almost too modest to be entirely accurate. Freddie Young, who died in 1998, was one of the most impressive of film cameramen, perhaps best remembered for his work with director David Lean, but a veteran who started out with Hitchcock in the early days of talkies and worked with Michael Powell and George Cukor. The memoir of British film- making in his youth is perhaps the high point of the book--as a young man, Young was so keen to work in film that he put up with bad conditions and no pay, but was clearly as happy as he had ever been. He is good on Hollywood and the occasional idiocies of the studio system and entertaining about characters as different as Ingrid Bergman and Vincente Minnelli.
If the book has a fault it is that he avoids the technical shop necessary to describe just how much of an innovator he always was, in favour of charming chat about personalities; it is perhaps only when he talks about the Lean films and just how he got, say, the look of Omar Sharif as Zhivago back from the Civil War, that he really talks himself up enough.--Roz Kaveney
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The veteran film cameraman Freddie Young, who won Academy Awards for "Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago" and "Ryan's Daughter", takes readers on a journey through cinema history, from his early days processing celluloid by hand in the studios at Shepherds Bush to his experiences with David Lean in locations around the world. This autobiography includes anecdotes about the directors and actors with whom Young worked, and offers a guide to how cinematography evolved from a craft into an art.
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Freddie Young was one of the greatest cinematographers of the 20th century. Starting in the silent days he went on to shoot memorable films such as Ryan's Daughter and the great Lawrence of Arabia, which he photographed in 65mm, 70mm in cinemas. Us film enthusiasts are grateful for these great people, who generally remain in the back ground and unknown by the general public, to have related their stories. Without them putting pen to paper, a lot of cinema history would go unrecorded.
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Charming recollections from a giant!
18 April 2008
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Freddy Young was among the best. His work made every film he was involved in better. This is a nicely produced, quickly read book of anecdotes and memories from an incredible career. I would have liked more depth, but what's there is great!
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