Lionel Banes

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Lionel Lawrence Banes (born July 27, 1904 in Prestwich near Manchester , † November 1995 in London ) was a British cameraman .

Life

Banes, who gave an extensive interview to colleague Peter Sargent (1916–2001) on July 28, 1988 as part of the 'BECTU History Project', began his film career in 1930 at Gainsborough Studios in London- Islington , after as a young man he had been intensively involved with photography. At the beginning of his career he had to work for 30 shillings a week, mainly in various functions, for established cameramen such as Bernard Knowles, Mutz Greenbaum and Percy Strong. His first film was a version of the popular Conan Doyle fabric, The Hound of the Baskervilles , in 1931 . In the same year he was also involved in the English Renate Müller film Sunshine Susie . In 1935 he was part of the camera crew that made Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps . Immediately afterwards he met the cameraman Günther Krampf , who had emigrated from Germany - “He was very much German in character” - who was to become an important teacher (e.g. in the application of the Schüfftan process ).

In 1941, Banes was brought in from the British War Office to work as a simple cameraman under the direction of Ernest Palmer on the propaganda and perseverance film Next of Kin . With this film began Banes' fruitful collaboration with the production company Ealing , which would culminate in 1948 with Blockade in London , an early masterpiece of a classic Ealing comedy. “It is told with a great sense of irony ... the story of an accidentally discovered medieval charter from the British King Edward IV, who declared the London borough of Pimlico as part of Burgundy territory, which led to a new self-confidence of its residents (and unpredictable consequences for the new one 'Neighboring state' England, which then replies with a blockade 'Neo-Burgundy'). "

Despite this remarkable career start, Banes had to be content with largely meaningless tasks in the period that followed. He still photographed a number of significantly less important movies, mostly B-productions, and was used more and more for television tasks (series The Count of Monte Cristo , The Scarlet Pimpernel ) in the course of the 50s . 1960 came about with the Israeli production Es Was Ten - the critics spoke of a "visually powerful and humanly filmed story of the first settlement of today's Israel" - his last important film. In the 1960s, Banes photographed a considerable number of episodes of the series Simon Templar , Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone, and The Man with the Suitcase , his last TV work, which were also popular in Germany . After working as a cameraman for additional shots for the war movie Dive Trip into Hell , Lionel Banes withdrew into private life at the age of 63.

Filmography (selection)

as chief cameraman unless otherwise stated

  • 1947: Against the Wind
  • 1948: Blockade in London ( Passport to Pimlico )
  • 1949: Train of Events
  • 1950: The Magnet
  • 1951: The Man in the White Suit ( The Man in the White Suit , just additional shots)
  • 1953: Valley of Song
  • 1953: The Good Beginning
  • 1954: You Were 13 ( The Night My Number Came Up )
  • 1957: The Blind Spider ( No Road Back )
  • 1957: The woman across the street ( That Woman Opposite )
  • 1958: monster without a face ( Fiend Without a Face )
  • 1958: Reluctant Sheriff ( The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw , second unit camera)
  • 1959: Beyond the Curtain (second unit camera)
  • 1959: Rising at dawn ( A Terrible Beauty , second-unit camera)
  • 1960: There were ten ( Heym hayu assara )
  • 1961: The Anatomist
  • 1967: Dive into hell ( Submarine X-1 , additional shots only)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Date and place of death according to the film archive Kay Less
  2. ↑ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/833762/index.html
  3. ↑ Alan Lawson's interview with Banes 1992, printed in: Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (eds.): Aufbruch ins Ungewisse. Lexicon, tributes, testimonials . Vienna 1993, p. 176
  4. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 166, (entry Henry Cornelius).
  5. ↑ cit. According to Lexicon of International Films , Volume 2 DF, Reinbek b. Hamburg 1987, p. 924

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personal data
SURNAME Banes, Lionel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Banes, Lionel Lawrence (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Prestwich
DATE OF DEATH November 1995
Place of death London