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Learning art direction
Ken Adam
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| 31. My first film: This Was a Woman | 151 | 02:35 | |
| 32. Learning art direction | 169 | 00:53 | |
| 33. My first big break: Captain Hornblower | 144 | 04:09 | |
| 34. Getting yellow jaundice | 121 | 03:48 | |
| 35. The first thing that went wrong | 109 | 04:00 | |
| 36. Bernard Voisin: the shipbuilder | 115 | 01:40 | |
| 37. Raoul Walsh: 'A tough guy' | 123 | 01:15 | |
| 38. Tom Morahan | 102 | 03:22 | |
| 39. The booming post-war smuggling trade | 115 | 02:50 | |
| 40. Becoming the reluctant 'ship man' | 107 | 04:18 |
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The important thing for me was to find out everything I could find out about art direction, what it entailed, and so on, and remember that I had also had an architectural background, and so I felt I had to learn first of all how to design a reasonable film in budget, you know. And I did about three or four films where I felt I learned my, you know, thing.
Sir Kenneth Adam (1921-2016), OBE, born Klaus Hugo Adam, was a production designer famous for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s. Initially, he trained as an architect in London, but in October 1943, he became one of only two German-born fighter pilots to fly with the RAF in wartime. He joined 609 Squadron where he flew the Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber. After the war, he entered the film industry, initially as a draughtsman on This Was a Woman. His portfolio of work includes Barry Lyndon and The Madness of King George; he won an Oscar for both films. Having a close relationship with Stanley Kubrick, he also designed the set for the iconic war room in Dr Strangelove. Sir Ken Adam was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003.
Title: Learning art direction
Listeners: Christopher Sykes
Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.
Tags: Walter M Scott
Duration: 53 seconds
Date story recorded: December 2010 and January 2011
Date story went live: 14 September 2011
