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 C.P.Norman, also known as Norman Delany.
CP. NORMAN approaches film decor as a scenic artist with the knowledge of the photographer — he is lucky in knowing how far ‘make-believe’ can [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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