The Red Shoes

To compliment the Capturing Colour exhibition I mentioned last December, Brighton's Duke Of York's Picturehouse yesterday screened the digitally restored film - The Red Shoes. The Red Shoes from 1948 is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made - the magnificent restoration brings all the true glory of the original technicolour back to this classic dark fairy tale. A great way to spend a bleak February Sunday afternoon.

Capturing Colour Exhibition

 

I visited a fascinating exhibition yesterday - Capturing Colour at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition explores the development of colour in film, from magic lanterns, early colour photography, through to Kinemacolor, Kodachrome and Technicolor. What's amazing is how much has developed in the last 100 years - right up to digital cameras and photographs and videos on mobile phones. It's great to see a younger David Dimbleby, then Controller of BBC2, introducing the first colour TV programmes.