Word: stobart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four backs line up in a Starting Lineups OHIO HARVARD Garrison LE Copeland Woods LT Shaunessy McCormick LG Walker Mallett C Foster Fisher RG Anderson Fenik RT Briggs Gallagher RE Hooper Stobart QB McLaughlin Carney LH Boulris Hilles RH Stahura Buckles FB Halaby
...disappointing, however, to sweat one's way with the mountaineers up the ice-cliffs and along the ridges of the upper camp, and then not see the final moment of triumph at the very top. Although Hollywood would never have committee this scene, T. R. Stobart, the expedition's capable cameraman-mountaineer, could scarcely be expected to pack his equipment to the pinnacle and film the others as they arrived...
...narration and music, however, veer sharply from Stobart's camera technique. Meredith Edwards, in voicing the sometimes Biblical-sounding narration, rolls his R's with as much power as the occasional avalanches. The original underscoring, while appropriately Himalayan and amusing at times, disgorges climax after climax during some of the climbing episodes. Your soon come to imagine the crest of Everest in every frequent shot of a minor crag...
...under the most adverse and hazardous conditions imaginable. Thus, TIME'S statement that "the film is one of the most fascinating even made" is a real tribute to both photographers Stobart and Lowe, and the craftsmen who built these cameras...
...full color, of the 1953 expedition led by Colonel (now Sir) John Hunt of the British army, which succeeded, where five others had failed, in reaching the top of the world's highest mountain (29,002 ft.). The film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur Benjamin and a simple, sufficient narrative commentary written by British Poet Louis...