At Home with Gregory Brown, the famous poster artist

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

105

Date Released

1 Dec 1921

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1At Home with Gregory Brown, the famous poster artist
2. 2The Jolly Dutch Girl
3. 3H. Grindell-Matthews, inventor of the new speaking and musical film
4. 4Fashions of All Nations
5. 5Sir John Martin-Harvey now appearing in "The Only Way"
6. 6We are all trying to economise these days, even the fair-sex have gone as far as to go without stockings, and now paint their legs instead ...

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

Summary - Gregory Brown, poster artist, working on a new design.
NoS synopsis: Lead title: Cartoon of a bus with the words ‘Around the Town’ on
it, and posters for the series where adverts would normally be. Footage of a street moves in the background. Men cross the street and a car pulls up alongside the ‘bus’.
'At Home with Gregory Brown, the famous poster artist who has done so much for ‘The poor man’s picture gallery" - He is one of the pioneers of the poster revival -' Footnote ‘Around the Town’ (this follows on all intertitles) Cartoon in background depicts a dog, woman and man admiring posters covering a wall. ‘At work in his garden’. Brown stands with a palette in his hand, painting at an easel. Behind him, branches overhang. He is dressed casually in a pale shirt and pullover. He looks into the distance at his subject and paints. We can see the painting on the easel which appears to be of a landscape with trees. He mixes paints on the palette. Close up as Brown continues to paint, and looks at the camera repeatedly. He also speaks to the cameraman (silent). ‘Some of his recent posters’. The poster "Dorking by motor bus" is shown, propped up against a wall in a house. There are a pot plant and a chair alongside it. The poster "Reigate by motor-bus" is seen in the same position. The poster "Hadley Woods Route 29A" is seen as well. (All of these posters depict landscapes with trees, like the painting Brown was doing earlier).

Researcher Comments

NoS - F Gregory Brown (1887-1941) was one of the several designers introduced to London Transport by Frank Pick. He worked for the Underground between 1908 and 1914, then later for the London General Omnibus Company, for whom he was working during the filming of this story. He later worked for Southern Railway on similar projects.

Keywords

Arts and crafts; Transport

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   8 December 1921, p58.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for Synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

90

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