STILL LIFE WITH HONESTY
Full length video
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Title: STILL LIFE WITH HONESTY
Reference number: 2686
Date: 1970
Director: d. Bill Forsyth, Martin Singleton
Sponsor: Films of Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council
Production company: Ogam Films
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 21.00 mins
Description:
The late Sir William Gillies, speaks of his life's work while the camera lingers on his paintings.
See production file.
Credits:
from an original idea by R. Henderson Blyth R.S.A. R.S.W. in collaboration with Mike Catto
ph. Martin Singleton
ed. Bill Forsyth acknowledgements to W.G. Gillies Dr. R.A. Lillie OBE, Paisley Art Gallery
Shotlist: Sir William Gillies loading paintings into a van, intercut with shots of his paintings and v/o of his talking about his life as a painter (2.06) tracking shot of Gillies walking with his dog on a snow-covered pavement in the East Lothian village of Temple (3.15) shots of his paintings and photographic stills of him, his friends and family with v/o, intercut with shots inside his house and studio in Temple (20.02) ecs (20.48)