Jack Cardiff Movies

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

In a bid to encourage city-dwellers to leave behind the restrictions of war, 'The Green Girdle' escapes from the austere urban landscape of...

Filmed in 1938, less than a decade before Indian independence, Delhi has a curious tale to tell. ‘Delhi’, the viewer is informed,...

A young man returns to his home of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland after surviving a German submarine attack.

Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until...

Technicolor scenes from an Indian Durbar, held for the Maharaja of Alwar in Rajasthan.

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

“Travelogue on the city of Petra. Traces four civilisations, each of which found value in re-establishing the life of this city, whose temples...

Documentary about the making of the 1948 British film, including interviews with members of the production team.

The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are...

A short documentary to demonstrate what can be done with Technicolor film and to show various other colourful products.

A Technicolor study of English pottery, the skill of the potter, and the modern mechanised factories of Wedgwood (British Council).

A colorful British documentary about the manufacturing of steel.

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)

War and ballet in Polish/British unison.

Whirring, gliding and twisting machinery produces sumptuous Scottish woollen fabrics, captured in Technicolor by legendary cinematographer Jack...

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the...

Short documentary about cinematographer Jack Cardiff.