Leroy G. Phelps
Encyclopedia
Leroy Garfield Phelps was a cinematographer
who filmed Frank Buck
’s second movie, Wild Cargo.
from 1920 to 1932. A year later
he accompanied Frank Buck
to India, Ceylon, Sumatra and Malaya, where he filmed Wild Cargo.
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- Leila Roosevelt Expedition to Africa and the Far East and was associate producer of "Wheels Across Africa,” "Wheels Across India," "Dangerous Journey" and "Dark Rapture."
. The film was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress
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Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
who filmed Frank Buck
Frank Buck (animal collector)
Frank Howard Buck was a hunter and "collector of wild animals," as well as a movie actor, director, writer and producer...
’s second movie, Wild Cargo.
Early career
Phelps was official photographer of Yale UniversityYale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
from 1920 to 1932. A year later
he accompanied Frank Buck
Frank Buck (animal collector)
Frank Howard Buck was a hunter and "collector of wild animals," as well as a movie actor, director, writer and producer...
to India, Ceylon, Sumatra and Malaya, where he filmed Wild Cargo.
Work with Frank Buck
While making Wild Cargo Phelps was nearly crippled by an infection he acquired after scratching himself on a poisonous renghus tree in the jungle. Buck and Phelps were almost trampled by a herd of stampeding water buffalo; they were spared only when the animals changed direction at the last moment. Phelps was cinematographer for some of the sequences in Buck's 1941 film Jungle CavalcadeJungle Cavalcade (1941 film)
Jungle Cavalcade is a compilation of footage from Frank Buck’s first three films depicting his adventures capturing animals for the world's zoos.-Scenes:Among the scenes in the film:...
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Later career
Phelps joined the Armand DenisArmand Denis
Armand Denis was a Belgian-born documentary film-maker. After several decades of pioneering work in filming and presenting the ethnology and wildlife of remote parts of Africa and Asia, he became best known in Britain as the director and co-presenter of natural history programmes on television in...
- Leila Roosevelt Expedition to Africa and the Far East and was associate producer of "Wheels Across Africa,” "Wheels Across India," "Dangerous Journey" and "Dark Rapture."
South Seas Documentary
While acting as a civilian pool photographer for the atomic bomb tests at Bikini, Phelps made a documentary film of natives on Likiep AtollLikiep Atoll
Likiep Atoll is a coral atoll of 65 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. It is located approximately northwest of Wotje. Its total land area is only , but that encloses a deep central lagoon of . Likiep Atoll also possesses the...
. The film was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
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