Geoffrey Faithfull
Geoffrey Faithfull ( born January 26, 1893 in Walton-on -Thames, Surrey, † December 1, 1979 in Bledlow, Buckinghamshire ) was a British cameraman with intense activity in B- productions and also a veteran of the domestic film; with over six decades of film activities behind the camera, who worked probably the longest image designer in film history.
Life
Faithfull had already been established as a child first contacts to the film. He has appeared already in 1903 under the guidance of producer Cecil Hepworth in an early film version of Alice in Wonderland front of the camera. Hepworth won the 14 -year-old then in 1907 his film production and made it there to the cameraman.
Over the next 63 years Faithfull photographed hundreds of ( mostly cheap to manufacture ) British entertainment films, almost continuously from simple style. Only his his Alec Guinness comedy Once a millionaire, when he the director of photography Douglas Slocombe zuarbeitete as second-unit cameraman, was a high-class production. Among his better-known films of the late science- fiction classic Village of the Damned and the first Miss Marple Crime 16 clock 50 from Paddington, both ( like almost all Faithfull ) films in black and white is rotated. Towards the end of the Second World War, Faithfull had also tried as director a few times.