John Biddle (yachting cinematographer) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

John Biddle (yachting cinematographer) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

John Scott Biddle (1925â€"2008) was a foremost yachting

cinematographer and lecturer, establishing a film-making career that

spanned more than forty years. His films captured not only the

technical aspects of sailing but also the human story in events as

tranquil as a Nova Scotia cruise and as grand as the America's Cup

Races.Biddle was born on June 7, 1925, near Philadelphia, the fourth

of five children. His parents, were both from prominent Philadelphia

families. His father was Brigadier General Nicholas Biddle

(1893â€"1977), whose great-grandfather was Nicholas Biddle, President

of the Second Bank of the United States. His mother was Sarah

Lippincott Biddle (1894â€"1962), whose paternal grandfather Joshua

Ballinger Lippincott (1813â€"1886) founded J. B. Lippincott Company,

and maternal grandfather Joseph Wharton (1826â€"1909) founded the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His colorful family

included cousins Livingston L. Biddle, Jr. and Anthony Joseph Drexel

Biddle, Jr.Biddle's father served a lifelong term with the National

Guard, was active in both World Wars, and was a well-noted, big-game

hunter. He was commissioned to travel the world and bring back

specimens; some of his ‘trophies’ still reside at Philadelphia's

Academy of Natural Sciences. During Nicholas’ travels, he would film

the hunts, then return home and allow young John to experiment with

his movie camera and all his unexposed film.John tinkered further with

the camera at his family's summer home in Jamestown, Rhode Island,

where he also mastered the idiosyncrasies of ocean sailing. Focusing

on his brothers, sisters and twelve cousins as subjects on and around

Narragansett Bay, he refined his choice of angles, composition,

containment of action within the frame and editing.
John Biddle (yachting cinematographer) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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