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 [...]
Clive Powsey wised me up to Branislav’s work through the comments form here. Although uncredited by IMDB, Branislav was responsible for some of the lovely production designs for the recently released European film, Nocturno. (See my earlier post here.)
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Some fine work on show, [...]
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 [...]
There’s a new name in the blogroll (left) today, and it’s that of Stephen Hanson, Illustrator and Visual development artist.
I had the pleasure of working with Steve a few years ago during the making of Balto, where we both painted backgrounds.
He’s been producing some gorgeous work that you can see on his new blog 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 Cedric Dawe (1906 - 1996)
Temptation Harbour 1947
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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 [...]
Good to see that the Director / writer of Lilo and Stitch has his own website at last.
Here’s the link:
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 [...]
There’s one really great advantage to all this living in the future, and it’s the appearance of programs like Celtx, a super cool tool that will wrap all your screenwriting formatting and storyboarding into one neat package that’s free to download. It does a lot more besides….
Celtx (pronounced “Keltics”) is such a useful collection [...]
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