Graeme Beck Producer/Director
Graeme Beck is a producer with
a rich background in television, documentaries, and commercial production.
He began his career as an assistant cameraman at ABCTV's film department in
Sydney before relocating to the Cairns and Townsville markets to produce regional
television commercials.
After working for over a decade in Perth making commercials
and industrial documentaries, Graeme has returned to Sydney, where he now
specialises in high-end time-lapse and industrial video production.
Awards
Over his career, he has won 14 Australian and two International awards for programes he has produced and photographed.
- International Awards:
- New York Film & Video Festival: Best Cinematography – 'Fragments' (Short Drama)
- Build Magazine Construction and Engineering Awards: "Time-lapse Cinematography Specialist of the Year 2026"
- Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) Awards:
- ACS Gold Award: Goldfields House Demolition
- ACS Gold Award: 'Whipchecks' (Industrial)
- ACS Silver Award: 'Bonaire' (TVC)
- ACS Silver Award: 'Princess Margaret Hospital' (Corporate)
- ACS Silver Award: 'The Prospectors' (Dramatised Documentary)
- ACS Award: 'Zip Heaters' (Industrial)
- ACS Award: 'Ironstone' (TVC)
- ACS Award: 'The Westralian' (Corporate)
- ACS Award: 'Harvey Dam' (Industrial)
- TVB Retail Advertising Awards:
- Carmichael Ford – Best of all Regions (National)
- Mission Beach Resort – Best of Region
Links
Old Film Facts
The first feature film (commercially made film over
1 hour in length) was the 1906 Australian film "The
Story of the Kelly Gang."
The largest number of cameras used in a single scene
to date was 48 for the sea battle in Ben Hur.
42 Cameras were used in the Chariot
Race shooting 53,000 feet of film in a single day.
The most film shot on a Feature Film to date was Howard
Hughes' "Hell's Angels" which consumed 2,254,750 feet of
film with a continuous running time of 23 days.
The greatest number of known retakes was 342 for the
blind flower
girl scene in Chaplin's "City Lights." (He was in Love with
the young Actress.) (Chaplin
directing the scene)
Marilyn Monroe did 59 takes in "Some Like it Hot"
in which her only line was 'Where's the bourbon.'
The shower
scene in Hitchcock's Psycho involved 70 set ups over seven
days for 45 seconds of edited footage.
The most costly news story ever to date was the Centenary
Air Race in Melbourne which was transmitted to Britain over
68 hours at a cost of US $30,000 in 1934. ($1,873,400 in 2026). It was shown
in 1500 cinemas within 48 hours.
"Jurassic Park" cost $90 million dollars to make and
$98 million dollars was spent in publicity.
The funeral
scene in "Gandhi" contained around 300,000 extras, 94,560 contracted
and over 200,000 volunteers.