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	<title>David Watkin &#187; Remembering DW</title>
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		<title>Photographing Frank</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank took to Mountainboarding when he was twelve &#8211; practicing in Stanmer Park, just outside Brighton. One chilly Autumnal morning David came to watch, and attempt to photogarph Frank as he whizzed past&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Trip to Prague</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jozef Stremen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Watkin on a trip to Prague with his chum Jozef, 2006]]></description>
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		<title>Trip to Amsterdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Watkin on a trip to Amsterdam with his chums Scott &#38; Jozef, 2006]]></description>
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		<title>David Watkin and his rugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Watkin at home...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remembering DW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antique Rugs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jill Palmer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About twenty years ago in the morning the front door bell rang. At the time I was living in a Brunswick Road, a barrel fronted Regency terrace just off the sea front in Hove. It was a blustery day and as I opened the door I was confronted by a slightly scruffy  individual, wearing an old raincoat and plimsoles. &#8220;Hello I&#8217;m David , Jill recommended you, she said you sell Persian rugs&#8221; &#8220;Er Jill?&#8221; I said. &#8220;Yes Jill Palmer in The Lanes (Brighton), the antique dealer&#8221; &#8220;Oh you had better come in&#8230;&#8221; That was how I met David Watkin. He proceeded to come in, go through my stock and select the better items. Not necessarily those in the best condition but certainly the best aesthetically &#8211; completely untutored in rugs, he certainly had an eye.  Thus I was taken rather aback, as people are usually phased when presented with an array of obscure Oriental carpets. Just a tinge worried that this likeable but completely unknown guy wanted to cream off my better items, I suggested we immediately adjourn for a &#8216;fitting session&#8217; to his place, to which he happily agreed. At the back of my mind I wanted some re-assurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of DW &#8211; Betty Mulcahy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Watkin at home...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Briefly, I was married in 1940 to my schoolgirl sweetheart who was then killed by so-called Friendly Fire on 21st December 1943, leading RAF Squadron 609 escorting American Bombers over Northern France. In 1947 I married an old family friend whose wife had walked out leaving him with three attractive children; a girl of 11 and twin boy and girl of 9. Unable to contemplate children of my own without the right father, I did my best to give them a stable family background whilst pursuing my own rather odd career. Trained for the stage but now unable to give time for an acting career, I won a national verse speaking competition in London and was offered work as a Poetry Speaker. Recitals, festivals, education, judging etc., took me around the country – and spread to the USA and South Africa as the work grew. Ten years with a Jazz Trio! In 1976 my second husband died of a heart attack, and I was forced to sell our house in Shropshire and decided to move to Brighton, where in Sussex Mews I was lucky enough to have as my friendly and helpful neighbour, none other than David Watkin. In 1973 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, I am Jurgen from Graz&#8230;, Exercises in Style.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apart from poetry and jazz, what else discomforted Mister Watkin?  - certainly word play and anagrams. Puns were associated with David Plumtree (see Holleyman and Treacher) who held a Black Belt at Punning. Mister Watkin would groan at word play, screw his face up in agony, and then allow himself a constricted laugh. James Joyce was well represented in his Library but never alluded to in conversation. Words were intended, he argued, to convey in as clear and succinct a form as possible, the exactitude of a thought. The thought might be obscure or heretic, but language was expected to deliver it in a neat clean parcel. His e-mails were written sparely and in the spirit of his famous one-liners delivered on set. Disgracefully he would ask an expert in, say, Hi-Fi , for a technical solution and then get irritated at the detail presented. In his world everything could, and should, be reduced to a simple concept. Perhaps this explained why David was himself easily persuaded by the written word. Long experience had taught him however to be wary of being taken in, particularly in matters of the heart. Among his correspondence, there was always a folder of Fan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Musical Heroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hans Knappertsbusch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ascending the Hierarchy of Conductors  we come three conductors at whose rostra Mr.Watkin worshipped. They could do no wrong. In ascending order then, Hans Knappertsbusch Willem Mendelberg Wilhelm Furtwangler Their performances were exemplary despite the ruined surface of scratched shellac disks, despite the ear splitting distortions from the timpani, and sometimes the clear sound of bombs seeking the Chancellery during a live performance.  Sometimes they were giving strident interviews to lackeys, or be overheard rehearsing with particular brutality towards the Orchestra. They were not to be questioned as to their judgment (either political or musical) or their sexual disposition. Their names were hallowed and not to be mispronounced. Their faces loomed out of the walls at the Mews. In distant parts of the house bundles of specialist journals detailed their more obscure performances and recordings. “Just what is it that makes a great conductor, David?” I asked. “Interesting question,” he said. “I’ll put my mind to that.” Later in the day, came the response.&#8221;The Orchestra adored him. They even played exceptionally when he was sitting listening at the back of the concert hall.  Furtwangler was a sort of presence.&#8221;  David always avoided the word ‘spiritual’ in his conversation, but I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Set of Catch-22</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/catch-22-a-diary-of-planes-pilots-and-pratfalls-buck-henry-life-date-unknown/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catch 22]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature Films]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The visual style of the film is the province of the lighting director, David Watkin, whose work on Charge of the Light Brigade particularly impressed [Mike] Nichols. Watkin has the disarming habit of, when being asked a direct question, answering with &#8220;Well-&#8230;&#8221; and then leaving the room. He has spent a great part of the rehearsal week lying on his back and staring through a dark filter at the sky. Some of us believe he is trying to perform a miracle. Others are sure that he simply sleeps in that position. Clive Reed, the first assistant whose job is to see that everybody&#8217;s job gets done, handles Watkin (as he does the others) with the style of of a somewhat whimsical concentration camp director. When Watkin&#8217;s fascination with the sun, seems to approach a cataleptic trance, Reed will inform him that a tarantula is approaching.&#8221; When this account was read to him, David explained Buck (who he adored) had simply failed to understand the technical purpose of the exercise. Pressed about sleeping, he agreed there was a distinct possibility. The reference to the spider still caused him to shudder and pale.]]></description>
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		<title>David&#8217;s Cherished Belongings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auction of the Contents of 6 Sussex Mews It came to our attention that the contents of David&#8217;s home were being auctioned at Gorringes Auction House, Lewes, East Sussex on 2nd &#38; 3rd September 2009. The Gorringes website will offer further details. Much of his furniture and many paintings were listed. Apparently some of the smaller items were sold in previous sales&#8230; Having combed through the Lots, we were aware that the following were David&#8217;s: Lot 1148 Lot 1147 Lot 1146 Lot 1089 Lot 981 Lot 982 Lot 985 Lot 943 Lot 960 Lot 2053 Lot 2117 Lot 2118 Lot 2155 Lot 150 Lot 152 Lot 153 Lot 4 Lot 349 Lot 905 Lot 587 Lot 570 Lot 569]]></description>
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		<title>Sindy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<title>Iain Somers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iain was perhaps David&#8217;s greatest love, and certainly his most significant relationship &#8211; they were together from the 1950&#8242;s until 1974, when Iain died tragically aged 39. This painting was a favourite of their&#8217;s &#8211; they&#8217;d bought it in Italy together, alert to the fact that it held an uncanny likeness to a young Iain. After his death in 1974, the painting was hung on the landing in Sussex Mews, facing David&#8217;s bedroom. He would leave his door open and, propped up on pillows, could gaze across to the &#8216;Portrait of a Boy with a Hoop&#8217;. Iain&#8217;s antiques shop in Kensington Church Street, London. A holiday snap&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to Mindaugas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 11:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The letters are, for me, like treasures&#8230;&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Maggs of Berkeley Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Collector]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;d gone to the Apocalypse Exhibition at the Royal Academy &#8211; DW guffawing his way around The Chapman Brother&#8217;s &#8216;Hell&#8216;. Afterwards he took us to visit his chums at Maggs&#8230; where a complete tour of the building ensued, courtesy of Mister Maggs, with Jozef taking the following snaps. Maggs Rare Books]]></description>
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		<title>Phil Grabsky, Seventh Art</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/02/phil-grabsky-seventh-art/#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel very fortunate to have met David. As it transpired, it was towards the end of his life but the man was so full of vitality that you could never have guessed he was ill. I was introduced to him following the completion of a film I&#8217;d made on a small boy in Afghanistan. One thing led to another and I shall never forget the lovely lunch of smoked salmon he prepared for me one day at his home. I could have stayed many more hours listening to his stories &#8211; and, when I read his book, was happy to read those very same stories (almost word-for-word I have to say!) all over again. David and I met a couple of times more &#8211; and I treasure his compliments of my cinematography &#8211; if David Watkin (Oscar-winner no less!) thought I was OK, then that was good enough for me. Funnily enough, David did me one extra service: he provided me with the voice of young Mozart &#8211; Frank Adams-Brown. Ironically, the last time we met was shortly before I headed off to make a film in Chernobyl. David thought I was mad to risk the radiation &#8211; though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marget Wallace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filming Tea with Mussolini I met David at a party at Franco Zeffirelli&#8217;s home in Rome. My son had been cast to play Franco Zeffirelli in Tea With Mussolini (TWM) and I was to be his chaperone (required by law as he was under 18 years of age). We were told about David and his genius for lighting (Wendy lights included) before meeting him, so I was a bit tongue tied when we were introduced. Somehow, books came up (can you imagine a conversation with David that lasted more than 5 minutes, without books coming up?). Baird (son, mentioned previously) told David that he had given me the collected works of Jane Austen for my birthday the month before. That did it &#8211; Baird and I were now David&#8217;s new best friends &#8211; he was so happy to know that there would be readers on the set. A few years ago, David telephoned me, completely tickled. It seems he had been to the doctor and told to sit and wait in the waiting area. Being David he became absorbed in something other than the waiting. He heard his name being called by the nurse and went up to the desk. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Venables at Movietech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew David for just over thirty years; I first met him in 1977 on a commercial that we were supplying equipment on. About a year later we were to supply equipment on the film Chariots of Fire which David was to light. David had a couple of scenes that needed high-speed photography and we had at the time a high-speed Vinten camera, which ran up to 260 FPS. David requested that we bought the camera down to Brighton for him to shoot some tests, which we agreed to do. So myself and Mike Conners, the focus puller, went down to David’s place. When we got there it was pouring with rain &#8211; really heavy. So David got in the car with a lad who was going to be running past camera. When we got to the sea front we got the camera set up and luckily we found a place to plug the camera into a mains socket from one of the rides there. We were now set to shoot, with the rain still pouring down. David turned to me and said &#8220;Do not switch the camera on till I tell you to&#8221;. David then walked quite a distance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott and Jozef</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday in Positano Glyndebourne August 6th 2006 Scott and Jozef&#8217;s Civil Partnership. The reception was held in the Mews.]]></description>
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		<title>A Tendency to Sleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David would, very occasionally, take a little nap on set.. And, on those rare occasions, invariably somebody would have a camera at hand&#8230; David found a little cave-like area near the church in San Gimignano, where he could beat the heat and nap. When Baird found this out, he followed suit. I call these pictures Cinematographer and Studying to be a Cinematographer. Marget Wallace, Tea with Mussolini &#8220;But one last rumour to be tested, and that came without prompting &#8211; the Watkin penchant for sleeping on set; &#8220;I will always light a set as if I am lighting a scene, not a shot. I will light it so that it is fireproof. I will watch the rehearsal and I will have a very good operator and a very good chief electrician who will watch the shooting and if anything goes wrong they will wake me up &#8211; I will retire to a quiet corner of the set and probably have a sleep because I&#8217;m very fortunate that I don&#8217;t snore and I can wake up instantly. It&#8217;s great for shocking Americans. Cameramen try and look like cameramen out there &#8211; they don&#8217;t go to sleep&#8221;. Charles Hewitt interviewing David in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renato Bertha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My meeting with David: I was part of a jury at the 2004 edition of Cameraimage. We were all staying in a particularly depressing hotel where the smell of fried foods was everywhere. In the morning, while I was having breakfast, a man, who appeared both to be of a certain maturity yet also youthful at the same time and who had a lock of hair hanging down over his forehead as if he’d just got out of bed, armed with a large cup of muesli in one hand and two empty soup bowls in the other, asked me if the place alongside mine was occupied. He sat down, put some muesli into one of the empty bowls and then very methodically took the raisons, one by one, and placed them on the table. He then transferred the raisonless muesli into the second empty bowl before pouring the remains of the cup into the now vacated first bowl and began the process all over again. His gestures appeared to be so certain and meticulous, yet also gracious and delicate that I was intrigued. He was so completely absorbed by his actions that I couldn’t even manage to catch his eye. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duncan Lustig-Prean</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1997 was a difficult and stressful year. The “Gays in the military” campaign was in full swing and I was under intense media scrutiny. My neighbour had just called to let me know that, once again, journalists had been looking in my rubbish bins. That morning I also found a live 9mm round on my doorstep, courtesy of Chapter 18 on whose death list I had achieved a significant promotion. With the post came a letter from a member of the public. Supportive, encouraging and warm, the author displayed an understanding of the pressure I was under. I replied in detail thanking the writer and explaining what our plans were for the campaign. A couple of weeks later a package arrived. Inside was a delightful letter in a now familiar green ink which thanked me for an unexpected response and enclosed his book “which you may find a little amusing”.  It was only then that I realised an emotional connection with the verdant correspondent and my last days in the Royal Navy. 1994 had seen us at sea for all but one month in the South Atlantic, the Falklands and Antarctica.  On our last night at sea before entering Portsmouth, [...]]]></description>
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