Odd, isn’t it, how the marketing of a film involves both the precise identification and targeting of likely audiences, while at the same time trying to maximise its appeal to the broadest possible market. Focusing and defocusing in one go. How wide of the mark this effort can sometimes be.
Now if somebody had [...]
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 Oliver Messel (1904 - 1978)
Messel was a Costume Designer and Art Director. He sometimes worked in the Art Department as well as being Production Designer for films. A [...]
I’ve just added a link to Paul Lasaine’s blog in the blogroll. I remember Luc Desmarchelier telling me about him when he was working at Dreamworks back in the 90’s. If you don’t know Paul Lasaine or his work, here’s the link….
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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 Vincent Korda. (1897 - 1979)
(Korda was responsible for the art direction of many UK made films, as well as international productions, and among his many credits are The Four Feathers, [...]
I was doing a bit of research into colour the other day, and I headed over to the splendid archive of American Cinematographer.
I found the information I was looking for spread across two of the (free to access) archive issues. The Color-Space Conundrum 1, and The Color-Space Conundrum 2. What really caught my [...]
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 Alfred Junge (1886 - 1964)
‘Asked by friends or relations: “What will you be when you grow up?” my answer was invariably: “I’ll be an artist or a Kaiser.” When the [...]
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 Laurence Irving. (1897 - 1988)
The Doctor’s Dilemma Pre-production sketch for a film that wasn’t released until 10 years later, in 1958. Watercolour.
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Irving was one of [...]
After looking at paintings of snow scenes created by artists who lived many years ago, it’s time to look at some pictures that have been painted by contemporary artists. What these people have in common is that, apart from being superb concept artists, they are also all featured in the blogroll (see left), and [...]
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 John Howell.
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Fame Is The Spur was Honor Blackman’s first screen appearance.
John Howells started his long cinematic career in the 1930’s. After the second world war 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 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 [...]