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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Editor Born: February 15, 1924 in Toledo, OH Biography:Documentary filmmaker and producer "Robert Drew" was a key figure in the development of American cinéma vérité, an approach they originally called "living cinema." Before entering the film industry, Drew was a WWII-era fighter pilot and then spent many years as a correspondent, photographer, and editor at Life magazine. As a photographer, he was especially noted for his candid pictorial essays that captured the essence of his subjects' daily lives and situations. His fascination with using the motion picture camera to capture candid moments began while he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Drew organized a band of like-minded journalists and filmmakers, including Leacock, "Don Alan Pennebaker", "James Lipscomb", "Gregory Shuker", and "Hope Ryden", and with them engineered special lightweight photographic and sound recording equipment. They then found new ways to edit film stock in such a way as to... Full Biography
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