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WOLF HALL - BBC 2 - 9PM
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Flower Myth - it just about WAS possible, back in the day, as Kubrick did it in Barry Lyndon, but it was probably very expensive.
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Aye that was priceless in book form as well..
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"To achieve photography without electric lighting for the many densely furnished interior scenes... meant shooting by candlelight, which is known to be difficult in still photography, let alone with moving images...
The production got hold of three super-fast 50mm lenses (Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7) developed by Zeiss for use by NASA in the Apollo moon landings  which Kubrick had discovered in his search for low-light solutions. These super-fast lenses with their huge aperture (the film actually features the lowest f-stop in film history) and fixed focal length were problematic to mount, and were extensively modified into three versions by Cinema Products Corp. for Kubrick so to gain a wider angle of view..." WIKI. |
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Re candles etc : The advances in techology are incredible, a few years ago you needed a big lens and an expensive to get good results in low light, now, not really, and it's always moving forwards.
There's a bit of a fuss at the moment with drones and privacy. Mark my words (  ), when in 10-20 years time pretty much every cheap camera is so sensitive everyone has a night vision camera .. I think it may be worse. |
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I see, Val, the clip on youtube confirms it worked really well.
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Gottfried Schalken...and Georges de la Tour...notorious candle fiends...Kubrick was only about 40 years ahead of his time by the looks of things...
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But kubrick was of course working with chemical film technology, not modern technology.
You don't need F0.7 lenses now to film in low light. |
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In Six Wives they have a few banquet scenes that look deliberately artificial as you can see strong shadows on the wall, cast from each side by studio lights. They must have done that as an artificial, stagey way to get around the problem.
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Fair enough Guinness...I am not tuned in to humour as much as I think..I thought you might mention Norfolk
Interesting program on BBC 4 just finished... Saints and Sinners..covered the dissolution of the Monasteries. From studying bones of Monks from the time it was found they both eat and drank better than most ordinary people at the time. There was also a high occurrence of Syphilis, so a fair bit of sex was going on, sodomy but also plenty of women. One Abbot had 8  on the go, and it is a long way from the ideal of a monk's life of austerityThey were rich, sold false relics and indulgences, owned lots of land They had been centres of knowledge, but by Henry VIII's time, the printing press had been invented, so not so much a need for scribes. Also early universities like Oxford were appearing, so one could be educated without entering a monastery. All this supports Cromwell's view of the monasteries of the time. |
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The dissolution was efficiently handled by Cromwell. Henry VIII of course had to approve, but the riches persuaded him.
Less than 20 monks were actually killed, most were given small pensions or other jobs in the church. The monasteries were systematically looted for everything of value. A few monasteries were spared and became Cathedrals. There was rebellion in The North but this was suppressed by Cromwell. It only took 5 years 1536 to 1541. |