Rey Scott

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Rey Scott (born January 9, 1905 in St. Louis , † February 12, 1992 in Marietta , Georgia ) was an American journalist, documentary filmmaker and photographer. His documentary Kukan (1941) was awarded an honorary Oscar at the 1942 Academy Awards .

Life

Rey Scott worked for the London Daily Telegraph in the 1930s . He photographed tourists in Honolulu , where he met Li Ling-Ai , an American with Chinese roots living in Hawaii, a writer, actress and designer who convinced Scott to travel to China to counter the aversion to China that was widespread in the USA and prepare the ground for support against the Japanese invasion of China. Filming began in 1939. Rey Scott, cinematic inexperienced, turned with a 16-mm - Handheld documentary Kukan (Subtitle: The Battle Cry of China), the Chinese of the culture and Diversifizität living in China ethnicities is, but also from Battle of the Chinese against Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War . The last twenty minutes of the film show the bombing of the western Chinese city of Chongqing by Japanese air forces. Scott smuggled the film out of the country in bamboo sticks that he used to transport his luggage in order to avoid the censorship of the Japanese occupation forces. Theodore Roosevelt had Rey Scott and Li Ling-Ai show the film in the White House in 1941.

In 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Scott joined the military and worked as a cameraman to support director John Huston on the shoots for the film Report from the Aleutians (1943), commissioned by the US Army . Rey Scott retired from military service for health reasons. After the war he retired completely from the film business and made a living as a photographer, most recently in Fort Lauderdale. Scott was married and had four sons. He died largely unnoticed by the public on February 12, 1992 in Georgia.

The Oscar-winning film Kukan was thought to be lost for decades and was only rediscovered by filmmaker Robin Lung in 2009 . It is currently being restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . Robin Lung is currently (2013) shooting the documentary Finding Kukan about the rediscovery of the film , which is financed by the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Phil Hall: Kukan. June 11, 2012, accessed November 2, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Trevor Jensen: Rey Scott, Former Lauderdale Photographer, Lauded Filmmaker. SunSentinel.com, February 16, 1992, accessed February 11, 2013 .
  3. ^ Nested Egg Production. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Rey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, documentary filmmaker and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1992
Place of death Marietta , Georgia