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	<title>David Watkin</title>
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	<description>David Watkin: Oscar-winning Cinematographer</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[Remembering DW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antique Rugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brighton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jill Palmer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About twenty years ago the morning the front door bell rang. At the time I was living in a Brunswick Road 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fourth Conductor &#8211; Sir Henry Wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Henry Wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watkin Classical Conductors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
There is a fourth conductor that David would have added to this list that of Sir Henry J. Wood. In his teens and until he was called up to serve in the British Army David joined the audience at London&#8217;s Queens Hall for the Henry Wood Promenade concerts each summer. It was a musical education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Railway, from 1948 to 1952</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Railway Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;my uncle Laurie found that there was a small unit of four people making documentary and training films in the nether regions of Waterloo Station, well beneath the notice of a trade union. My father set up his Blickensderfer (the oldest typewriter in the world) on our dining-room table and dashed off a letter to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Account Book, 1962 to 1976</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Surviving in David&#8217;s papers was this account book which gives a detailed list of the feature films and TV commercials he worked on after leaving Transport until the height of his early career in 1976 and Joseph Andrews. It contains only one reference to London Transport, in 1962 , undoubtedly acting as a freelance.

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		<title>The Long Night Haul, 1957 for BTF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BTF in the 1950's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Long Night Haul. British Transport Films]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although the film isn&#8217;t mentioned in David&#8217;s two memoirs, The Long Night Haul (19 minutes) is an ambitious and complex film celebrating the foundation of the British Road Service&#8217;s general haulage truck service. Sometimes perhaps David shot a film which was without any notable anecdotes and thus passes without notice in his canon of work. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Travolators, 1961 for BTF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BTF in the 1960's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Travolators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This a short, nine minute film to commemorate the construction of the Travolator between the Bank and Waterloo stations in London to supplement the long walk required of City commuters and nicknamed The Drain. The otherwise exemplary box of DVDs, The British Transport Film Collection  does not identify any credits. For the only time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The England of Elizabeth, 1957 for BTF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BTF in the 1950's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1957]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The England of Elizabeth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Moley Men]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Edgar promised Ritchie, who was getting restless, a break to direct and so I took over The England of Elizabeth with John Taylor again. It is nice to have one&#8217;s name on the same picture as Vaughan Williams although on the only occasion when I should have met the great man I was sent off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Care of St.Christophers, 1959 for BTF</title>
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		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/the-care-of-st-christophers-for-btf-1959/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BTF in the 1950's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1959]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Care of St.Christophers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://davidwatkin.co.uk/new/?p=1336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Happily I was now able in small measure to repay some of my debt to Jimmy Ritchie. The next film for me after THE ENGLAND OF ELIZABETH was his first picture as a director, and it turned out to be a very charming one. It was about a railway orphanage in Derby run by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mademoiselle, 1966 for Woodfall</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/mademoiselle-for-woodfall-1966/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/mademoiselle-for-woodfall-1966/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mademoiselle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Genet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Lewenstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Handford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Richardson Woodfall 1966]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My first picture with Tony [Richardson] was made in France with an entirely French crew, apart from myself and an editor I didn&#8217;t like. Oscar Lewenstein had uncovered a screen-play by Jean Genet written many years before, to while away one of his sojourns inside a French prison, that Genet himself had forgotten about…. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowdrift at Bleath Gill, 1955 for BFT</title>
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		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/snowdrift-at-bleath-gill-1955-for-bft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BTF in the 1950's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Paynter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh Raggett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Fairburn. John Legard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snowdrift at Bleath Gill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Snowdrift at Bleak Gill, 1955, directed by Kenneth Fairburn, edited by John Legard and photographed by Bob Paynter. David Watkin was an unacknowledged assistant on this film. The film is 10minutes, largely devoted to the single task of freeing a goods engine and carriages from snowdrifts using a mechanised snow plough and gangs of diggers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Pullman, 1960 for BTF</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/blue-pullman-1960-for-btf/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/blue-pullman-1960-for-btf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BTF in the 1960's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Pullman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Pullman, 1960 was directed and written by Jimmie Ritchie and photographed by David Watkin and Jack West. It was edited by Hugh Raggett with music by Clifton Parker. The film was shot in colour and lasts almost 23 minutes, exploring the intensive testing of the new 90mph diesel-electric Midland Pullman, and its maiden journey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of DW &#8211; Betty Mulcahy</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/memories-of-dw-betty-mulcahy/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/memories-of-dw-betty-mulcahy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scrutineer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Watkin at home...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remembering DW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[609 Squadron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betty Mulcahy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Thornton Brown]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light and Vermeer</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/light-and-vermeer/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/light-and-vermeer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin Vermeer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Legard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think it is terribly pretentious for people who are cinematographers to go around and say they looked at a painting by such and such a bod. Nothing irritated me more than, when I was doing Catch-22, Mike Nichols said I want it to look like Andrew Wyeth, that sort of thing is a red [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflected Light/Direct Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feature Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marat/Sade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Lester commercial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David first used the technique of reflected light rather than direct lighting on a documentary film he was doing about London Transport buses (All That Mighty Heart 1962). &#8220;And it had a scene in Welwyn Garden City. In some house there was a housewife tidying up and vacuuming before getting on a Green Line bus. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pianos at the Mews (from &#8220;Clara&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/pianos-at-the-mews-from-clara/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/pianos-at-the-mews-from-clara/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FREDERICUS BECK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roguski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Square Piano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A friend had bought a square piano in Bonham&#8217;s saleroom with the intention of having it restored as a present for me. Nothing had ever been done and I decided to see to it. Morleys came, looked, and went away to quote. Then by a happy chance there was a commercial at a house in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pigeon</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/the-pigeon/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Watkin at home...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pigeon in Sussex Mews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The phone rang on Sunday at its usual Watkin time, around 10.00am.  Retreating to the study I arranged myself at the desk for a serious gossip.
“Can you come over, dear?”
It was ominous.  He didn’t start with “My Dear Chris, How are you?…” Some affair of the heart needing my wise counsel?  An urgent reading from [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Remembering DW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Mullen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>

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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holleyman and Treacher, and how I met Mister Watkin</title>
		<link>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/holleyman-and-treacher-and-how-i-met-mister-watkin/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
		<comments>http://davidwatkin.co.uk/2009/09/holleyman-and-treacher-and-how-i-met-mister-watkin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Collector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holleyman & Treacher Brighton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1989 when I first came to Brighton from antiquarian Norwich I little expected to find an equivalent to Thomas Crowe, or the Scientific Anglian. But to have the shops of Colin Page and Holleyman and Treacher within a minute’s walk of each other was exhilarating. Rather than join my Art School colleagues in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collecting Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colin Page Brighton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Watkin was a dedicated collector of books. He bought carefully but knowledgeably from the main dealers in Britain and the US, in person or by catalogue. Even when he feared poverty in his later years (never with much conviction) I saw him contemplating catalogue items such as the Complete Plays of Vanbrugh for many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Watkin&#8217;s Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a man who earned his living through images, David Watkin was astonishingly confident with the written word, reading and writing and declaiming. At various stages of our friendship I remember his completing Thomas Mallory, Proust and The Faerie Queen. He took particular delight in Shakespeare’s plays and mined deeply within the two volume edition [...]]]></description>
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