Are They Really So Awful?: A Cameraman's Chronicles

ISBN-10: 1857561937
ISBN-13: 9781857561937
Category: Cinematographers
Pages: 276
Language: English
Published: 1995
Publisher: Janus Publishing Company Lim
Author: Christopher Challis

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Christopher Challis, a distinguished Director of Photography, worked in the British Film Industry for almost fifty years and now looks back on a career that involved him with such giants as Alexander Korda, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger and Stanley Donen. Among the many films he photographed are: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, the Tales of Hoffman and - perhaps the most famous of them all - Genevieve. His compulsively readable memoirs reveal his joy in the madness of it all and tell of the vanity of Cary Grant; the warmth of Audrey Hepburn; the wit of Robert Morley; the professionalism of Sophia Loren; and the long lunches of Richard Burton. Are they Really So Awful? was a question directed at Christopher Challis when he was a young man, and referred to everyone involved in the making of films. In retirement his answer to the question is 'Yes' - but his delightful memoir shows that he loved every moment of it.

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