In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been collecting images from my hard drive and cropping them to exactly 770 x 140 pixels. The reason for this is it’s the size of the header image on the portal style blog I set up for the students I teach at Ravensbourne College.
I’ve started with a [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Hein Heckroth (1901 - 1970)
“Film is the folklore of the 20th century.”
He says of his experiments in the theatre that he has used every trick and every machine that he [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Roger Furse (1903 - 1972)
IMDB reveals that Furse was the son of Lieutenant General Sir William Furse, and that he was educated at Eton and the Slade School of [...]
I found these beautiful background paintings in Tekkon Kinkreet, a full length feature film derived from Taiyo Matsumoto’s manga `Black & White´.
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Here’s an enormous digitally drawn layout:-
There’s a gallery here, some trailers here, and more info below the fold.>>
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Cedric Dawe (1906 - 1996)
Temptation Harbour 1947
(Cliccare sulle immagini per ingrandirle)
Streets Paved With Water
Easy Money
One of child star Petula Clark’s early screen appearances.
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Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Douglas Daniels
My Brother Jonathan, 1948
Thora Hird had already been appearing professionally for 8 years before playing a part in this film!
His sets are always very finished in detail. He gets [...]
Hans Bacher has punched his way through several bouts with Blogger, and we’ve watched him fill a few blogs full to bursting point in the last couple of years. We’ve followed him through art-attacks, mad-t-party, followed by it’s-a-wrap and then moving on to manila-envelope.
You’d think that would be enough for most people, but Hans [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Maurice Carter.
His work on colour films also showed him that colour gave him ‘an extension of the designer’s normal descriptive power - a sort of fourth dimension that could claim [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with Edward Carrick, who said:
“I believe that the film in the hands of the artist could be the greatest medium of expression of all time”.
( I have to say that I [...]
Continuing a series about Art Directors in the British film industry up to 1948, when the book containing these articles was published.
This chapter deals with the remarkable JOHN BRYAN.
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Blanche Fury 1948
John Bryan’s work shows him to be a designer of the romantic school.
His drawings are always full of [...]
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