Description

Richard Leacock – The feeling of being there, a filmmaker’s memoir
Couverture cartonnée – ouvrage en anglais
Livre + Digital Video Book

Le DVB (digital video book – format DVD de données) contient le texte de l’ensemble de l’ouvrage, ainsi qu’une centaine d’extraits vidéos et des documents d’archive.

Paperback version – ISBN: 979-10-90448-00-1

The Feeling of Being There” is a riveting autobiographical epic spanning almost the entire history of cinema as seen through the eyes of one of its leading players.

From “Canary Bananas”, his first movie in 1935, to a musical production in post Soviet Siberia, Richard Leacock’s memoir follows history through the eyes of a man who was present at so many key moments of the 20th century, among them, the battle for Burma, the Japanese surrender at Nanking, John F. Kennedy’s primary campaign, the Kenyan leap towards independence, and the enrollment of the first African American students at the University of Alabama.

But this isn’t just a numbered and signed memoir. “The Feeling of Being There” will be both a bound paper book and a Digital Video Book (or DVB) viewable on computer.
In the limited special edition, or “Collector’s box,” the numbered and signed hardcover book comes with an embedded video player containing close to 100 film clips which intertwine richly with the gripping storyline.

Richard Leacock, The Feeling of Being There, a Filmmaker’s Memoir, Semeïon Editions, 2011.