Adventureland Productions

Germany 2008
by Susanne A. Homann

A portrait of the turbulent life of the now 80-year-old director, cinematographerand film pioneer N.Paul Kenworthy Jr. Among his many accomplishments, Paul Kenworthy conceived and filmed the OSCAR awardwinning classic Disney film The Living Desert in 1953.In 1977, he was recognized by the Academy in Los Angeles for the unprecedented development and implementation of the Snorkel Camera – an innovation still in use today, 50 years later.The film gives Paul a chance to have his say and keenly narrate his life story: from his first steps career-wise to conflicts, dreams, failures and rising up again, right down to the retrospective balance – a life between a Hollywood career and modesty, between glamour and a passion for nature, between achieved and unachieved goals. 57min | DigiBeta | DVD |original version with German voice over and German subtitles, English version with English voice over available