Jack Parker

Filmes

Hoodman
Director of Photography
An urban legend haunts a small town as a troubled young woman seeks to find her missing child. A relentless detective pieces together clues that lead them both to a suspected killer. As the mystery unfolds so does the frightening realization that the urban legend is real.
Your Local Council
Director of Photography
Short educational film made in 1949 explaining how the Parish council and Country council work together to ensure that a tree survives when a new pavilion is built!
Frieda
Camera Operator
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Camera Operator
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Atomic Physics Part 1: The Atomic Theory
Cinematography
This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in Faraday's early experiments in electrolysis, Mendeleeff's Periodic Table, and ending with ideas of the size of molecules and atoms then current. (Part 1 of 6)
Corações Aflitos
Camera Operator
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
Johnny Frenchman
Camera Operator
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Na Solidão da Noite
Camera Operator
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
The Ten Year Plan
Cinematography
The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.
Dreaming
Camera Operator
When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!
Variety Jubilee
Camera Operator
This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
Development of the English Town
Cinematography
A brisk visual summary of the changing faces of the English town throughout the ages, from the ancients and their hill-forts to the Second World War -- enlivened by the appearance of ghostly denizens to defend their eras against the narrator's various strictures!
Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Camera Operator
Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
The Missing Million
Camera Operator
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
Accused
Director of Photography
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
O Diabólico Barbeiro de Londres
Director of Photography
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
Sunshine Ahead
Cinematography
'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)
Annie Laurie
Director of Photography
British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
Lend Me Your Wife
Cinematography
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Warren Case
Cinematography
Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
Director of Photography
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
Meet My Sister
Director of Photography
'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)
Men Like These
Director of Photography
A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew.
Strictly Business
Director of Photography
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Dance Pretty Lady
Director of Photography
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
The Windjammer
Cinematography
Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
Bolibar
Director of Photography
Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands
Director of Photography
The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.
Boadicea
Director of Photography
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.