Leacock would teach at MIT until his retirement in 1989. In 1989 he moved to Paris, where he met Valerie Lalonde and, together, they made Les Oeufs a la Coque de Richard Leacock (84 minutes), the first major film shot with a tiny Video-8 Handycam to be broadcast on prime-time television in France. Leacock and Lalonde continued making films of their own choice without the pressures of TV producers, notably A Musical Adventure in Siberia, in collaboration with conductor Sarah Caldwell, his daughter Victoria Leacock and filmmaker Vincent Blanchet. Leacock died on 23 March 2011 at age the age of 89 in Paris. Before his death, he was raising funds for his multi-format memoir, The Feeling of Being There - A Filmmaker's Memoir, a bound paper book and DVB (digital video book), published by Seme*on Editions.
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