filmmaker Vincent Blanchet. Leacock died on 23 March 2011 at age the age of 89 in Paris. Before his death, he was raising funds for his multi-format memoir The Feeling of Being There: A Filmmaker's Memoir, a bound paper book and DVB (digital video book), published by Semeïon Editions. To Leacock, the process of film-making is a "process of discovery." He did not film to preach his own ideas and his own presuppositions; he wanted to discover the world around him. To him, any type of staging makes no sense, and in the end, comes across as fake. "Usually, if you wait long enough they end up doing things naturally." Leacock believed that if you wait, people will become comfortable with the camera and start acting like themselves. Cameras, he thought, should be small and unobtrusive, though never hidden. You should shoot in sequence if you can, and without interfering or asking for actions to be repeated. Just like in Crisis and Primary, the action only comes from observation. By simply placing a camera in a room, our eyes can be opened. His main goal was to give viewers the sense of being there. Preservation The Academy Film Archive preserved On the Pole, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, and The Chair by Richard Leacock. Selected filmography 1935 Canary Bananas (8 min.) 1941 To Hear Your Banjo Play (20 min., dir. Charles Korvin (Geza Karpathy)) 1948 Louisiana Story (cameraman) 1948 Mount Vernon and The New Frontier (cameraman) 1949 Earthquake in Ecuador (director cameraman) 1950 Head of the House (writer-director-editor) 1952 The Lonely Night (dir. Irving Jacoby, filmed by Leacock) 1954 Jazz Dance (20min., cameraman) 1954 Toby and the Tall Corn (30 min., writer-director-camera-editor for Omnibus) 1956 A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp 1957 How the F-100 Got Its Tail (20 min., for Omnibus) 1957-9 Frames of Reference, Coulomb's Law, A Magnet Laboratory, Crystals 1958 Bernstein in Israel (30 min., Omnibus) 1959 Bernstein in Moscow (55 min.) 1959 Bull Fight at Malaga (20 min.) 1960 Primary (30 min.) 1960 Yank! No! (55 min., Close-Up, ABC) 1960 Kenya: Land of the White Ghost (Close-Up, ABC) 1960 On the Pole (aka, Eddie, 55 min, co-produced and directed, The Living Camera) 1961 Adventures on the New Frontier (Close-Up, ABC) 1961 The Children Were Watching (dir. Leacock, Close-Up, ABC) 1961 Peter and Johnny (55 min., produced by Leacock, The Living Camera) 1961 The Chair (55 min., co-produced,