Face to Face with Kevin Brownlow

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Celluloid Tapestry

Celluloid Tapestry

5 жыл бұрын

Film-maker and historian Kevin Brownlow, interviewed by Tony Fletcher in 2009, about his early life and the beginning of his career.
This upload is based on a DVD transfer of the MiniDV original, upscaled to 960x720 50 frames-per-second to maintain video motion on KZfaq. Best viewed at 720p resolution.

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@artworkjeremystudio521
@artworkjeremystudio521 8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your kindness to upload this amazing
@ArchernAce
@ArchernAce 5 жыл бұрын
I am so grateful for this lovely interview. Kevin ...we should all be so grateful for him. I owe my passion for silent film to this dear man.
@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe
@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe 3 ай бұрын
Very interesting interview, thanks for posting
@jknuttel
@jknuttel 4 жыл бұрын
I've met Mr. Brownlow several times. Wonderful man.
@dannyspelman1468
@dannyspelman1468 6 ай бұрын
I could listen to this guy all day. The first documentary I saw by him was Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow. It was mesmerising. Through that, I discovered Hollywood (1981), Unknown Chaplin (1983) and Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1991).
@-elchoya9832
@-elchoya9832 3 жыл бұрын
i could listen to this gentleman for hours
@michaelsmith1262
@michaelsmith1262 2 жыл бұрын
Very nice guy. I pestered him with many letters with questions about silent films when I found the address for Photoplay Productions. He answered every single one.
@JB1912JB
@JB1912JB 5 жыл бұрын
Thank-you for this. It is a valuable video indeed.
@stevenmcnicoll5060
@stevenmcnicoll5060 2 жыл бұрын
A marvellous man. He and David Gill enriched and educated the world about cinema. I saw their seminal documentary Hollywood when I was ten and it stirred my interest in silent movies. Then their Unknown Chaplin documentary just blew me away. Stay well Kevin! And THANK YOU
@chrisdaniels8413
@chrisdaniels8413 3 жыл бұрын
Delightful and fascinating interview with. Kevin and extensive enough to really get to the details. Kevin’s not a huge fan of onscreen interviews so I imagine that’s a reflection of the high esteem in which he hold Tony Fletcher and crew.
@debranchelowtone
@debranchelowtone 5 жыл бұрын
What a great man, he does so much for the silent movies. Congratulations. I love the part about «les yeux polyvision» .
@ccvisions
@ccvisions 3 жыл бұрын
1:00:38 Kevin Brownlow: "...And mercifully they never did the series." But may I point out that "Fractures Flickers" was indeed produced and aired on television to delighted audiences.
@PotterPossum1989
@PotterPossum1989 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload. What DVD is this on?
@CelluloidTapestry
@CelluloidTapestry 4 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! It's not on any commercially published DVD, it's a DVD-R uploaded by request of the interviewer, Tony Fletcher.
@ccvisions
@ccvisions 3 жыл бұрын
Clarence Brown IS the lost name of the cinema.
@ArchernAce
@ArchernAce 5 жыл бұрын
Is there more of this interview??
@CelluloidTapestry
@CelluloidTapestry 5 жыл бұрын
Sad to say that this is all there is. The interview became so detailed that it filled two hour-long tapes in fewer questions than Tony originally had planned , so there wasn't time to cover Kevin's later career and the interview deviated from the structure Tony announced at the start of the interview. The second and final tape ran out out mid-question just after what you see here. Kevin has done some other excellent long form interviews, including recently on Leonard Maltin's podcast, a few years ago with Frank Thompson of The Commentary Track, and another in-depth video session, with the BEHP, at historyproject.org.uk/interview/kevin-brownlow
@ArchernAce
@ArchernAce 5 жыл бұрын
@@CelluloidTapestry it's a lovely gift. Someday he will write a book ... If he has time between his projects.
@reviewgodusa9613
@reviewgodusa9613 5 жыл бұрын
why was this recorded on such low resolution in 2009? HD cameras were popular then
@CelluloidTapestry
@CelluloidTapestry 5 жыл бұрын
Are you getting the highest resolution that's available? It should be 720p50, with a 960 width instead on 1280 as it's 4x3 content. I'd have done the upload in the original 720x576 if KZfaq supported 50Hz motion at SD resolutions. Hope it being sourced in standard definition doesn't spoil your enjoyment. I wasn't involved in the filming, but HD in 2009 would have been the exception rather than the rule. I recall HD cameras at the consumer end were becoming available but weren't ubiquitous. I had the first affordable HDV tape model from 2006, the HDV format was never reliable with long GOP MPEG2 on marginal tape, and a dropout that would have been a single frame splat on MiniDV would be a loss of half a second of footage on HDV. I switched to flash memory HD cameras in 2008, while the format was still cutting edge and taxing to edit; the sensor was small and the codec was low bitrate, falling far below broadcast requirements. I should think the majority of cameras being sold (both models and units) in 2009 were still standard definition only. The BBC's deadline to cross to HD for a 'majority' of content was 2010, and they were still producing plenty in SD until past that date. Their flagship drama Doctor Who only went HD in 2009. BBC One HD didn't begin until late 2010, prior to this their shows produced in HD from across all four main channels had been compiled on a separate channel that few viewers could receive, which was eventually replaced with a simulcast of BBC Two in 2013. US networks also continued shooting content in SD into the 2010s. There's a lot of it about, on KZfaq and elsewhere!
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