Film material before the talk Notes by CM 29 10 2002
1. Film The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968,
the statue of the Duke of Wellington
2. Filming the Charge, location footage by Kevin Brownlow
(editor)
3. raw footage as DW talks to
3.1 Charles Wood, writer the original script
by the playwright John Osborne, copyright problems as it appears like
a popular account of the Crimean War The Reason Why Cecil Woodham
Smith, rights owned by the actor Laurence Harvey. settled out of court.
Harvey insists in being in the film. The scene not used - actually
film not in the camera. Dialogue in the script - the actors must speak
it, not extemporise. The director Tony Richardson admired Charles
WoodsÕ dialogue but not his structure The role of research that Lord
Cardigan would not get his sword out to fight unless it was with a
social equal. The madness and surreality of war - revealed in contemporary
accounts. CMÕs copy of W.H.RussellÕs Dispatches to the Times (1855)
Routledge London.
3.2 Vanessa Redgrave actor. The impact of
Tony Richardson, his condemnation of all censorship - TRÕs film Look
back in Anger, social realism, and Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner,
the cruelty of the prison system for the young. His films- beauty
and ugliness combines as in life.
4. Peter Sandford. Suddenly in an interview
about cinema, a story emerges of the destruction of the 51st Highland
Division by the American Air Force and the refusal to accept the account
by the Imperial War Museum. end
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