PORPHYRIA
Full length video
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Title: PORPHYRIA
Reference number: 1155
Date: 1959 - 1960
Director: filmed by Jimmy Craig
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: fiction
Running time: 8.00 mins
Description: Based on a Robert Browning poem, the film tells the story of a photographer who falls in love with his model, and then strangles her and hangs himself.
Credits:
cast Liz Brown and Jack Weir
From a poem of Robert Browning
camera Craig, Bulloch, MacGuinness, MacMaster
continuity Tom Smith
[from an original concept by Enrico Cocozza]
Shotlist: Credits (.57); A photographer has fallen for his model, but doubts about their love drive him to commit murder, then suicide (7.38)