So far, I've found very little on the net for a person with such a large body of work. He was known as an avant-garde filmmaker and most of his American work was under the name of Alexander Hammid. According to IMDB, his birth name was Alexander Siegfried Georg Smahel. In others, such as his early work in Czechoslovakia, he goes under an earlier name, Alexandr Hackenschmied. In "The Forgotten Village," he is credited as Alexander Hackensmid.
Hackenschmied comes to us under more names than an Internet sockpuppet (Sasha, buddy, where ya been all my life?). The tone and texture, as usual in his work, is as smooth as 35mm ASA 12 portrait film.Īfter seeing his work as cinematographer on the 1941 documentary film "The Forgotten Village" (Screenplay by John Steinbeck, narration by Burgess Meridith) and entranced by his style, I very recently began private research on this man and found Mr. Love the cinematography by Czechoslovakian-born filmmaker Alexandr Hackenschmied, aka Alexander Hammid, aka Hackensmid. What Hammid beautifully portrays on film, Morris explains in print. It is a fine companion the book on cats by cultural anthropologist/sociobioligist Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape), "Catwatching and Cat Lore," from 1986. I recommend this download for anyone interested in cats or fine cinematography. Great documentary following the stages of the life of a cat.
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