David Millin

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David Millin (1920-26/05/1999) was a South African cameraman, film director and filmmaker.


Biography

Born in Cape Town in 1920, settled in Johannesburg in 1937

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

He joined African Film Productions in 1941. In the early 1950s, he handled Second Unit Photography on Alexander Korda's Cry The Beloved Country and Where No Vultures Fly (1951).

Altogether, Millin directed 14 feature films, was director of photography on 19 features and made numerous documentaries. He pioneered film pyrotechnics and weaponry for his own movies, and also built South Africa's first camera crane. Made a number of films based on South African works, including James Ambrose Brown’s popular play Seven Against the Sun (1966).

In 1997 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South African Society of Cinematographers and Eastman Kodak.

Sources

Peter Joyce, p.178.


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