{"id":8371,"date":"2009-04-23T07:13:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2009-04-23T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T21:44:08","slug":"vale-jack-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/04\/23\/vale-jack-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Jack Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8374\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8374\" title=\"lg_5888471_jackcardiff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lg_5888471_jackcardiff.jpg\" alt=\"lg_5888471_jackcardiff\" width=\"391\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lg_5888471_jackcardiff.jpg 391w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/lg_5888471_jackcardiff-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Cardiff - 1914-2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This morning we pay tribute to Oscar winning British cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, who died yesterday aged 94.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardiff cut his teeth in the film industry at an early age, appearing in a number of silent films during the 1920&#8217;s, before working as a camera assistant on an early Hitchcock film, <em>The Skin Game<\/em>. Cardiff went on to work for London Films, a company with which he became the first to shoot the first film in colour in Britain (<em>Wings Of The Morning<\/em>), before becoming a filmmaker during the second world war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The turning point came when he collected an Oscar for his work on <em>Black Narcissus<\/em>, and then went on to lens the classic film, <em>The Red Shoes<\/em>. Cardiff was DOP on a number of other major films throughout his career, including, among others, <em>The African Queen<\/em> (for director John Huston), <em>War and Peace<\/em>, <em>The Prince &amp; The Showgirl<\/em> (for director Laurence Olivier), <em>Death on the Nile<\/em>, <em>Conan The Destroyer<\/em>, and <em>Rambo: First Blood Part II<\/em>.<br \/>\nCardiff also took his turn at directing films, for which, in 1960, he was nominated for an Oscar for <em>Sons &amp; Lovers<\/em>. Cardiff&#8217;s career saw him complete a small number of films during the 60&#8217;s, before eventually returning to the art of cinematography for others later on. But not before becoming one of cinemas pioneering lights with an attempt to introduce Smell-O-Vision, in the early 60&#8217;s. Suffice to say, it was not a success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For his contribution to cinematography in film, we pay tribute today, to Jack Cardiff.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8372\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8372\" title=\"cardiff8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cardiff8.jpg\" alt=\"cardiff8\" width=\"347\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cardiff8.jpg 347w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cardiff8-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cardiff directing on set.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we pay tribute to Oscar winning British cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, who died yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}