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Oct 19, 2012 · And Gainsborough Pictures, as we continue to come to know them, certainly burned bright and without remorse. Image/Sound Criterion has graciously debuted three of the most popular Gainsborough films in one of their cleanly packaged, barebones Eclipse box sets, presenting each film in mostly untouched but compulsively watchable form.
Title: Wooded Upland Landscape. Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (British, Sudbury 1727–1788 London) Date: probably 1783. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 47 3/8 x 58 1/8 in. (120.3 x 147.6 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of George A. Hearn, 1906. Accession Number: 06.1279.
This note on Gainsborough and picture framing has been prompted by the publication of John Hayes's The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough (2001) and by the Gainsborough exhibition at the Tate Gallery, touring to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002-3. Pictures in the Tate exhibition are indicated by the ...
Oct 5, 2012 · A new boxed set from the Criterion Collection’s no-frills Eclipse Series, “Three Wicked Melodramas From Gainsborough Pictures,” offers a well-chosen sampling of the studio’s output: Leslie ...
Fanny by Gaslight (US title – Man of Evil) is a 1944 British drama film, directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a 1940 novel by Michael Sadleir (also adapted as a 1981 TV serial ). It was the second of its famous period-set "Gainsborough melodramas", following The Man in Grey (1943).
Mar 27, 2014 · Title: Old Bones of the River Summary: In this British comedy, a professor travels up river in Africa to open schools. But his new pupils are not receptive and when the commander of the local base succumbs to malaria, he takes ... Directed by: Marcel Varnel Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
Gainsborough Pictures was a film studio based in Islington, London, active between 1924 and 1951. Their studios — which were purchased from Famous Players-Lasky when the American company withdrew from producing films in Britain — were demolished in 2002 and replaced by three blocks of upmarket apartments in 2004.
