Stuart V. Jewell, 84, an Oscar-winning cinematographer whose pioneering time-lapse films showed flowers blooming and thunderheads boiling, died of cancer Sunday.
Jewell's credits include several Walt Disney "True-Life Adventure" features, including "The Living Desert," a 1953 Oscar winner.He traveled to the sea bottom for whale shots and went airborne in a rebuilt Catalina Flying Boat to retrace the around-the-world flight of the World War II craft.
Jewell would live in the desert for months at a time to film the painfully slow movements of plants growing and flowers blooming.