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Documentary pioneer Richard Leacock dies at 89

British observational documentary maker Richard Leacock, who filmed John F Kennedy on his 1960 presidential campaign, has died at the age of 89.

Leacock, a pioneer of unobtrusive camera technique Cinema Verite, died at his home in Paris on Wednesday.

He solved the puzzle of how to sync speech and video by inventing a system using US-made Bulova watches.

His work on films like the 1960 Kennedy film Primary paved the way for new wave directors such as Jean-Luc Godard....

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