Stills supplied by Barry Coward at Beulah
David Watkin: Oscar-winning Cinematographer
Stills supplied by Barry Coward at Beulah
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We welcome you to the David Watkin website that celebrates the work and life of that remarkable cinematographer. We trace his contributions to documentary, commercial and feature film-making, relating his achievements and innovations to the very character of the man, complex and perverse, innocent yet knowing at the same time. He wore his learning lightly but with much seriousness.
Find out what it was to work with David Watkin on sound stage and beyond, to keep him supplied with jokes, food, music, books, pictures and all sorts of other intriguing information. Read within the memories of friends, critics, colleagues and other amused observers.
We invite you to add your own impressions to our interactive database.
These are stills from the following British Transport Film titles:
David working with one hand and eating an ice cream with the other, so typical, comes from “Peak District”. Also from Peak District is the still with the Beulah time code stamped on it.
The black an white stills from BTF “Production 121″ was an aborted film made in 1952/3 for London Transport. Some of the shots found their way into “All That Mighty Heart” (BTF 1962). In fact Prod 121 was shot in Eastman Color which explains David holding a colour card in two stills, one with Ken Cooper looking over his shoulder. The penultimate shot catches “Mac” (Stewart McAllistair) making sand castles on the Thames foreshore under Tower Bridge. The last shot features BTF Gaffer Frank Brice as a bus passenger.