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Burnett Guffey
May 26, 1905 · 121 years old
While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning lensman began as an assistant cameraman in 1923 on John Ford's 1924 western saga The Iron Horse. He was then hired by the Famous Players-Lasky Studios in 1927, became a camera operator in 1928 and worked there until 1943. Guffey was hired as a…
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My Father: Gordon Parks
1969 · 27m · Movie
A documentary portrait of poet, novelist, photographer, and composer Gordon Parks on the set of his first film, The Learning Tree (1969): the first major studio film directed and produced by an African American.