British Colour Cinema: Practices and Theories

by Simon Brown (Editor), Sarah Street (Editor), Elizabeth Watkins (Editor)

Overview

Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinema (also by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is a book based on a series of unique interviews conducted by Sarah Street and Elizabeth I Watkins with practitioners who worked in the UK with Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the 1930s-1950s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844574148
Publisher:	BFI Publishing
Publication date:	06/12/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

SARAH STREET is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Permissions.- About the Authors.- Introduction.- PART I: COLOUR AND THE CAMERA: CINEMATOGRAPHERS.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Interview: Chris Challis.- 3. Interview: Pat Jackson.- 4. Document: Jack Cardiff, 'Shooting Western Approaches', The Cine-Technician, Nov-Dec 1944.- 5. Interview: Ossie Morris.- 6. Interviews: Guy Green, Erwin Hillier, Douglas Slocombe, Paul Beeson, Stan Sayer.- 7. Document: Ronald Neame, 'A Talk on Technicolor', The Cine-Technician, May-June 1944.- PART II: POST-PRODUCTION.- 8. Introduction.- 9. Interview: Syd Wilson.- 10. Interview: Dave Davis.- 11. Interview: Bernard Happé.- 12. Interview: Frank Littlejohn.- 13. Interview: Les Ostinelli.- PART III: ARCHIVING.- 14. Introduction.- 15. Interview: Paul De Burgh.- 16. Document: 'Preservation of Films', Kinematograph Weekly, 13 March 1952.- 17. Interview: Jaoa de Olivera.- 18. Interview: Keiron Webb.- 19. Interview: Sonia Genaitay.- 20. Document: Robert M. Fanstone, 'Experiences with Dufaycolor Film', British Journal of Photography, 7 June 1935.- 21. Document: 'Gasparcolor Explained to the R.P.S.', Kinematograph Weekly 31 January 1935.- 22. Interview: Paolo Cherchi Usai.- 23. Interview: Ulrich Rüdel and Daniela Currò.- 24. Interview: Giovanna Fossati.- PART IV: THEORY.- 25. Introduction.- 26. Document: Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, 'The Future of the Colour Film' in Colour Cinematography (London: Chapman Hall, 1951).- 27. Document: E.S. Tompkins, 'In Defence of 'Glorious' Colour', British Journal of Photography, 3 Mar 1944.- 28. Document: Paul Nash, 'The Colour Film' in Charles Davy (ed.), Footnotes to the Film (London: Lovat Dickson Ltd, Readers' Union Ltd, 1938).- Index.