Lacey Percival

{{Short description|Australian cinematographer}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

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|name = Lacey Percival

|image = Lacey Percival Everyones 14Mar1923.jpg

|caption = Portrait of Lacey Percival (published in 1923).

|birth_name = Edgar Charles Lacey Percival

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|02|11|df=y}}

|birth_place= Glebe, New South Wales, Australia.

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|08|07|1885|02|11|df=y}}

|death_place= Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

|education =

|occupation = cinematographer

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|spouse = Catherine Blanche Morris

|children =

|parents = Andrew Percival & Bertha Adelaide (née Theakston)

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Lacey Percival (11 February 1885 - 7 August 1968) was an Australian cinematographer who worked on many early Australian silent films. He worked for the Australian Photo-Play Company then joined West's Pictures. When that company merged with Australasian Films he ran their weekly newsreel, Australasian Gazette until 1925.{{Citation

| title=C. Lacey Percival Resigns from A.F. Ltd.

| journal=Everyones.

| volume=5| issue=311 (17 February 1926)

| location=Sydney

| publisher=Everyones Ltd

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-574672185

| id=nla.obj-574672185

| access-date=25 February 2024

| via=Trove

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Two years later he went to work for Automatic Film Laboratories, then in 1935 established Percival Film Laboratories which he ran until his retirement in 1948.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 16[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-553213505/view?sectionId=nla.obj-569876460 The Versatile Cameraman], Everyones (Sydney), Vol. 3 No. 158 (14 March 1923), page 3.