CONTENT

The director Craig McCall felt a more passionate and intimate story would be told by avoiding the use of voice-over. Adopting this approach allowed Craig to create a verité profile of Jack’s life and filmography by passing the baton of his story from interviewee to interviewee and back to Jack - who is an engaging and animated raconteur in his own right.

"Persistence of Vision" contains original interviews with:

 
with significant contributions from other eminent producers, directors, actors, cinematographers and film historians.

The story is enhanced with an abundance of unseen background footage and production stills including Jack’s own private collection of portraits that he took of leading actresses. It also contains extensive behind-the-scenes movie footage from African Queen and other major productions bringing the audience much closer to some of his more extreme location exploits.

Meticulously researched and executed, the film offers high production value: it has been 5 years in the making. It fully utilises Jack’s extensive personal archive of over 1500 photographs and hundreds of bits of ephemera. This supporting material has been integrated with clips from Jack's extensive filmography to vividly illustrate his achievements and craft.

Much of the glitter from the film business emanates from the movie stars and occasionally from the directors or producers but rarely do we get glimpses of the other creative contributors in film production.

This documentary offers not only a unique and valuable testimony to British and international Cinema history, it is humorous and informative one too. As a child actor in 1918, Jack was four years old  the last time he appeared in a film: this sequel is long overdue.