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 [...]
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 [...]
This is the sixth chapter in the ongoing series about Art Directors and Production Designers in British Film up to 1948, and the featured artist in this excerpt from the book is RALPH BRINTON
“In its widest sense I would say that my favourite medium as a designer is the moving picture provided by [...]
Another chapter in the continuing series about Art Directors and Production Designers in British Film up to 1948.
This excerpt considers the work of Ferdinand Bellan.
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`Bonnie Prince Charlie´ Starring the youthful Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper.
`Bonnie Prince Charlie´
`Salute The Soldier´
(Probably `The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick´, 1921)
The text continues after [...]
That’s right, he was the brother of the Art Director who was featured in the previous entry in this series, Norman Arnold, and they are known to have worked together occasionally (See text below).
Wilfred’s career as an Art Director started with `The Rat (of Paris)´ in 1925 and he worked as an assistant to Alfred [...]
Norman Arnold was one of the most prolific production designers active in British cinema in the two decades immediately before and after the second world war.
He was art director for at least 154 films, and
his experience has taught him to be able to work in two styles, one clear and precise so as to [...]
What I particularly enjoy in the work of André Andrejew is nicely explained and highlighted in the text commentary that appears below the fold:-
Andrejew is essentially a film man and his drawing matters little to him; for many years Ferdinand Bellan* collaborated with him as his sketch artist.
Bellan supplied the brilliant drawings so [...]
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