Not hosted, but helmed— what a great phrase, and captures it precisely. This made me think of The Rock and Roll Years, which was on the BBC in the 80s/90s (I think? Certainly 80s)— half an hour where they just showed you old news stories juxtaposed/overlaid with music from the time. It was brilliant— I think it gave me a taste for non-hosted/non-narrated documentaries that I’ve never lost.
Ah! It’s so delightful seeing the past of places you know well in such things - I also (finally) watched James Mason’s ‘The London Nobody Knows’ recently, which has a lot of ‘60s Spitalfields and Shoreditch, close to where I used to live, and its fascinating, especially given how much London has changed since.
In turn, ‘House in Bayswater’ reminded me of the mid-sequence Campion books by Margery Allingham from the ‘30s, which all seem to be set in such quiet, pale West London streets, in houses full of strange, becalmed characters.
Came out of my place the other day and bumped into Vicki Russell - ken’s daughter . We talked about the film. Did you know that the photographer, still alive was with Magnum? David Hurn became was commissioned by the producers of the James Bond films to shoot a series of stills with Sean Connery and the actresses of From Russia with Love. When the theatrical property Walther PPK pistol didn't arrive, Hurn volunteered the use of his own Walther LP-53 air pistol! The pistol became a symbol of James Bond on many film posters of the series.
In 1967 Dino de Laurentiis asked Hurn to travel to Rome to shoot photos of Jane Fonda in Barbarella. I think he also photographed the Beatles. Julie Christie and Jeremy Irons still live on the square.
Oh wow - that's a fortuitous meeting, and that's great about Hurn. He definitely comes across in the film as a man going somewhere. His note that he's only shooting cheesecake shots to pay for what he really wants to photograph definitely sounds like someone who's already figured out how the machine operates.
Not hosted, but helmed— what a great phrase, and captures it precisely. This made me think of The Rock and Roll Years, which was on the BBC in the 80s/90s (I think? Certainly 80s)— half an hour where they just showed you old news stories juxtaposed/overlaid with music from the time. It was brilliant— I think it gave me a taste for non-hosted/non-narrated documentaries that I’ve never lost.
The rock and and roll years! I’d forgotten about that completely and I loved that too. Going to have to try and find some now
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLATO3hd627ovrs79IpLL6AElYz0I526go
I live on that square!
Ah! It’s so delightful seeing the past of places you know well in such things - I also (finally) watched James Mason’s ‘The London Nobody Knows’ recently, which has a lot of ‘60s Spitalfields and Shoreditch, close to where I used to live, and its fascinating, especially given how much London has changed since.
In turn, ‘House in Bayswater’ reminded me of the mid-sequence Campion books by Margery Allingham from the ‘30s, which all seem to be set in such quiet, pale West London streets, in houses full of strange, becalmed characters.
Came out of my place the other day and bumped into Vicki Russell - ken’s daughter . We talked about the film. Did you know that the photographer, still alive was with Magnum? David Hurn became was commissioned by the producers of the James Bond films to shoot a series of stills with Sean Connery and the actresses of From Russia with Love. When the theatrical property Walther PPK pistol didn't arrive, Hurn volunteered the use of his own Walther LP-53 air pistol! The pistol became a symbol of James Bond on many film posters of the series.
In 1967 Dino de Laurentiis asked Hurn to travel to Rome to shoot photos of Jane Fonda in Barbarella. I think he also photographed the Beatles. Julie Christie and Jeremy Irons still live on the square.
Oh wow - that's a fortuitous meeting, and that's great about Hurn. He definitely comes across in the film as a man going somewhere. His note that he's only shooting cheesecake shots to pay for what he really wants to photograph definitely sounds like someone who's already figured out how the machine operates.