While relaxing at home during the Jubilee Bank Holiday,I took a look at Talking Pictures free online catch-up service,and was happy to find an Ealing title that I've not heard of before, leading to me painting a boat.
View on the film:
Running along the canals, director Charles Crichton & The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967-also reviewed) cinematographer Douglas Slocombe serve up a slice of Ealing class with a stylish mix of documentary and Melodrama, via impressively pulling the heavy cameras of the period deep into the vast, imposing canals, which spin out to elegant panning shots over the village and sharp smash-cuts towards close-ups that dissolve under the ripples of the canal water.
Covered in a soothing narration from James McKechnie, the screenplay by Stephen Black, Louis MacNeice and Michael McCarthy match the location, by taking a laid-back stance in the Melodrama between the two families, instead placing an emphasis on the technological advances made during the Industrial Revolution, and the cheerful, day to day living of those on painted boats.
View on the film:
Running along the canals, director Charles Crichton & The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967-also reviewed) cinematographer Douglas Slocombe serve up a slice of Ealing class with a stylish mix of documentary and Melodrama, via impressively pulling the heavy cameras of the period deep into the vast, imposing canals, which spin out to elegant panning shots over the village and sharp smash-cuts towards close-ups that dissolve under the ripples of the canal water.
Covered in a soothing narration from James McKechnie, the screenplay by Stephen Black, Louis MacNeice and Michael McCarthy match the location, by taking a laid-back stance in the Melodrama between the two families, instead placing an emphasis on the technological advances made during the Industrial Revolution, and the cheerful, day to day living of those on painted boats.