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Title: MACKINTOSH

Reference number: 2226

Date: 1968

Director: d. Murray Grigor

Sponsor: Films of Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council

Production company: IFA (Scotland)

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 34 mins

Description: The life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

This film was made for the then 'new' BBC2 channel, who were scouting for new arts programming. It complimented Andrew McLaren Young’s 1968 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Exhibition, which showed at the Edinburgh Festival and toured cities around the world (yet it didn’t make it to Glasgow!) The film helped raise the profile of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Credits: camera Edward McConnell, Oscar Marzaroli
m. Frank Spedding
cond. Marcus Dods
nar. Maurice Roeves
poems read by Maev Alexander
graphics Avril McIlwraith
ed. Bill Forsyth

Shotlist: [shot-listed from DVDC034 using DVD timing]

countdown leader - title - shots of line drawing of church, details of Margaret Henry Reid gravestone, candle sconces - details of Glasgow Group artworks, including watercolours, picture frames exhibited at London exhibition - stills of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret MacDonald and "Spook School" artwork - gvs Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art, students entering front doors - gvs int doors and stairway (4.11) gvs tower houses in countryside - stills of Mackintosh's sketches of various structures - int shots of Director's Room in Glasgow School of Art, c/u of details including bust of Francis Newbery - sequence of stills relating to Miss Cranston's tea rooms, including Kate Cranston, George Walton, Mackintosh, int of tea rooms, menu cards - stills of Willow Tea Rooms, design details, Room de Luxe details - sequence of fruit and vegetable shapes as influence on Mackintosh style - shots of Mackintosh designs for European exhibitions - stills of Turin exhibition - stills of design for Glasgow International Exhibition concert hall - shots of Mackintosh commercial work, cutlery (9.21) stills of Mackintosh and MacDonald's home, details of furniture and design - still images of Windyhill at Kilmacolm and Hill House at Helensburgh - gvs of library and other rooms at Hill House, gvs of design, detail and furniture - more ext and gvs of Hill House and details of design and furniture (13.42) still images of plans for House for an Art Lover, cathedral at Liverpool - int gvs of St. Cuthbert's Church in Glasgow, fittings and design detail - details of ext stonework and organ woodwork (16.50) gvs Scotland Street School, including railings, playground and frontage - shots of children coming out of doorway - gvs of stairwells - ext gvs of School of Art - tracking shot up front of building - gvs students in painting studios - shot of students in corridor - shots of lifts in operation, partitions - gvs in sculpture studio, with architectural details - shots of clock, stairwell and design details, 'hen run' - ext gvs of roof area, conservatory, rooftop vents - shots of hoist to Director's studio - shots of paintings of School of Art board - int shots of boardroom, design details (23.48) int shots of library, students at work, architecture and design details - gvs west front of building - gvs Glasgow skyline from rooftop and Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery - still images of Mackintosh sketches and watercolours in England c.1914 (26.31) c/u details of Mackintosh textile designs (27.27) shot of doorway of 78 Derngate in Northampton - still image of W.J. Bassett-Lowke with his wife and George Bernard Shaw - int shots of Mackintosh's designs and fittings in Derngate house - shot of Bassett-Lowke's house 'New Ways' - still images of plan for building in Chelsea and Mackintosh as older man - sequence of rostrum shots of Mackintosh's watercolours from his time at Port Vendres in France - shots of weathervane at Glasgow School of Art - ecs (31.29)