Learning on ScreenLaura Knight (1877-1970)
- Synopsis
- Laura Knight tells her story through radio and film interviews recorded in her lifetime; it is illustrated by her paintings. Her favourits subjects were the ballet, gypsies and the circul. During World War 2 her particular brand of realism led to her appointment as a war artist. Caroline Fox, Laura Knight’s biographer, guides the viewer through places influential to her paintings: the Goose Fair in Nottihgham and the coastal villages of Staithes and Newlyn.
- Series
- Five Women Painters, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 26 min. Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.
- Technical information
- Black-and-white / Sound
- Year of production
- 1989
- Availability
- Hire
Sale; 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) - Subjects
- Art
- Keywords
- Knight, Laura (1877-1970); painters; paintings - British
Credits
- Director
- Jane Jackson
- Producer
- Jim Berrow
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
Production Company
Sponsor
- Name
Arts Council
- Phone
- 020 7973 6820
- Fax
- 020 7973 6449
- Notes
- Contact: Will Bell (7/99), e-mail will.bell@artscouncil.org.uk
- Name
Central Independent Television
- Notes
- use Carlton UK Television
Distributor
- Name
Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
- Notes
- Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.
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