In Production

[Stephen Pickard]

This will be hopefully be a continuing series of vintage production reports from the trade paper Kinematograph Weekly. I only have odd issues from late fifties, early sixties. From early '63 on I have every issue until the paper ended in the seventies.

The date is printed at the top of each page.

[smudge]

Thank you very much for sharing these Stephen! Particularly as some copies of Kine Weekly are getting harder to find and climbing in price on EBay. Very good of you and absolutely fascinating.



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[theuofc]

name='Stephen Pickard']This will be hopefully be a continuing series of vintage production reports from the trade paper Kinematograph Weekly. I only have odd issues from late fifties, early sixties. From early '63 on I have every issue until the paper ended in the seventies. The date is printed at the top of each page.

Hello, Stephen, :-)



Thank you so very much for the ongoing fascinating material. I have work I should be doing, but it's hard to tear myself away from this film history. The 15 March 1962 article on Andrew and Virginia Stone was quite interesting in that it gave details about on-location filming of The Password is Courage not usually covered. Also fun to see the 26 April 1962 notice of the scheduled shooting of The Lonely Stage (I Could Go On Singing) at the end of April. That filming would be a bumpy ride but worth it.



Best wishes,



Barbara

[kelp]

My goodness, that took me back a few years. Excellent stuff. Thank you.

[Stephen Pickard]

[Number Six]

What fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing that with us Stephen

[theuofc]

name='Stephen Pickard']

Wonderful material, Stephen. Thank you. I had to smile at this excerpt from the May 3, 1962:



"Five 'unknowns' average age 22 have won key roles in The Wild and the Willing ...the lucky five, who won through from a list of more than 500 possibles, are Ian McShane, 19, and John Hurt, 22, both from RADA...Samantha Eggar, 23, from London."



Too bad there isn't a pic of McShane at 19 and Hurt at 22. Imagine.



Best wishes,



Barbara

[Joenoir]

name='theuofc']



Too bad there isn't a pic of McShane at 19 and Hurt at 22. Imagine.



Best wishes,



Barbara

The youthfull stars!

[theuofc]

name='Joenoir']



The youthfull stars!

Hello, Joenoir,



These are just splendid! John Hurt and Ms. Eggars look much the same, but Ian McShane looks all of 19 and ready to rock and roll.



Thanks so much for finding them! Much fun.



Barbara

[cornershop15]

Fantastic pictures, Joe. Was that one of Ian McShane taken before his marriage to Suzan Farmer do you know?



As I said at the John Howard Davies thread yesterday, I make no apologies for feeling sad when I see how (particularly) actors have aged. John Hurt is a case in point I'm afraid, but I am delighted he's still going strong.



Congratulations on this thread, Stephen. The scans have come out beautifully, and I'm always keen on finding new (old) dates!

[Stephen Pickard]

[smudge]

Thanks again Stephen. I particularly like the chance to see some of these photos - up till now I had never seen Director George Pollock and the shot of Jack Greenwood is quite unlike other pictures I have seen of him.



Cheers!



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[Joenoir]

name='cornershop15']Fantastic pictures, Joe. Was that one of Ian McShane taken before his marriage to Suzan Farmer do you know?

Sorry, cornershop, I've only just noticed this. The picture of Ian McShane was taken at the time he was filming The Wild and the Willing, so as he married Suzan in 1965, the answer to your question is yes!

[Stephen Pickard]

[dicky2006]

Wonderful stuff...many thanks

[Stephen Pickard]

[theuofc]

name='Stephen Pickard']

Again, thanks for the most interesting material. Several things to comment on, but one in particular jumped out: the top reference (23 Aug 1962) to Peter O'Toole and his co-owned company Keep Films' proposed filming of "Waiting for Godot," which I'd never heard of. Little wonder. It never materialized. What a shame: Waiting for Godot can be thrilling on stage as the 2009 McKellen-Stewart performances in the West End attest.)





< "Beckett resisted offers to film the play, although it was televised in his lifetime. When Keep Films made Beckett an offer to film an adaptation in which Peter O'Toole would feature, Beckett tersely told his French publisher to advise them: "I do not want a film of Godot."



"The BBC [had earlier ] broadcast a production of Waiting for Godot on 26 June 1961, a version for radio having already been transmitted on 25 April 1960. Beckett watched the programme with a few close friends in Peter Woodthorpe's Chelsea flat. He was unhappy with what he saw. "My play," he said, "wasn't written for this box. My play was written for small men locked in a big space. Here you're all too big for the place." >



Barbara

[Stephen Pickard]

[Stephen Pickard]

[irish1]

Thank you so much for the memories of the 1960's, and of film studios now long gone!

Do you have any "in production" from the 1950's as I would love to see Southall Studios

in print!

Regards..Bill Cooke.

www.southallfilmstudios.com