25 January, 2010 – 5:32 pm
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 Alex Vetchinsky ( 1904- 1980 )
He is an artist of the cinema and does not pretend to be a painter of pictures. His work is never self-conscious and he has [...]
18 November, 2009 – 12:09 pm
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 Duncan Sutherland. (Born 1905 – )
Sutherland is another of those robust and jovial artists; like Vetchinsky, he bothers little about his drawings as such and depends for so much of [...]
22 September, 2009 – 1:31 am
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 Wilfrid Shingleton (1914 – 1983)
He is essentially a practical artist and there are few problems in art direction that he would not overcome.
Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1948. Conté, London Films.
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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 Paul Sherriff (1903 – 1960).
It was in 1943 that Sheriff made his most memorable contribution to film decor when as Art Director for Laurence Olivier’s `Henry V’ he experimented with [...]
29 April, 2009 – 12:16 am
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 Michael Relph. (1915 – 2004)
His designs are made in crayon and wash, and as designs show a distinct theatrical influence but when built in the studio become essentially cinematic. [...]
22 March, 2009 – 11:01 pm
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 David Rawnsley (1909 – 1977) 1
One of those luxurious bohemians whom one usually associates with that period in history when Casanova and Carlo Gozzi flourished. He always works on a [...]
15 February, 2009 – 11:46 pm
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 Fred Pusey (1909 – 1983)
Pusey went over to Brazil and up the River Amazon to collect data for a film entitled ‘End of the River’; then turned to a [...]
19 January, 2009 – 1:46 am
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 George Provis.
After starting work in a solicitor’s office George Provis found that his heart wasn’t in it and so set out to learn architecture and the building trade.
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23 November, 2008 – 2:03 am
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 Peter Proud.
When he was 15, his money was finished and he left school and applied for a job as sound recordist at B.I.P., Elstree, where `mention’ of some complicated sound [...]
12 August, 2008 – 2:04 am
But not very far.
I could not take my eyes off the distance that the pink reflections travelled away from the mooring buoy.
It’s a sort of reflection upon a reflection. Click the picture to make it move. (Requires Quicktime)