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Film ID | ACE211 |
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Title | Joseph Wright of Derby. The Spectacle of Light |
Series | Contrasts |
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Date | 1990 |
Director | Catherine Collis |
Production Company | Central Television |
Synopsis | The work of English landscape and portrait painter, Joseph Wright (1734-1797), his documenting of the Industrial Revolution, and his fascination with the effects of light. |
Minutes | 25 min |
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ACE211.2 (00:00:00 - 00:09:15) Introduction with brief views of several paintings, including Self Portrait. Dr Stephen Daniels, Nottingham University. Engraving of 18th century Derby. David Fraser, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, on Wright’s “artificial light” subjects. Judy Egerton, Tate Gallery, quotes Gazetteer description of Wright as “a very great and uncommon genius in his peculiar way”. Two of Wright’s “candlelight” paintings, Three Persons Viewing The Gladiator by Candlelight (1765), and A Girl Reading a Letter with an Old Man Reading over Her Shoulder (c.1760-1762). Actor as Scientific Lecturer. A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery in Which a Lamp is Put in Place of the Sun (1765) and Scientific Lecturer with orrery. Scientific Lecturer and his assistant create a vacuum under a bell-jar. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768). Dr Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, describes the experiment. Details of the painting. The Scientific Lecturer concludes his experiment. Details of the painting. Porter talks about its religious qualities. Daniels talks about “quasi-religious imagery” of this and A Blacksmith’s Shop. ACE211.3 (00:09:15 - 00:16:45) ACE211.4 (00:16:45 - 00:25:00) |
Full credits | Central wishes to thank Dr Brian Allen, Frank Bunting, Dr Alan Morton, Malcolm Strickland, Derby Art Gallery, The Tate Gallery, London, The Science Museum, The Trustees of the British Museum, The Arkwright Society, The National Trust, Via Gellia Colour Company The National Gallery, London, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, Sheffield City Art Galleries, The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Fitchburg Art Museum, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, Leeds City Art Galleries, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Pushkin State Museum, Moscow, The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, The Trustees of the Kedleston Estate Trusts, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Smith of Derby, Tower Clocks Ltd., Southampton City Art Gallery. The Scientific Lecturer, Geraint Thomas; Commentary read by David Munro; Programme Consultant Judy Egerton; Camera Ian Hollands; Sound Frank Minton; Graphics The Image Facility; Rostrum Frameline; Dubbing Editor John Hall; Dubbing Mixer Richard King; Production Associate Vicky Allen; Production Assistant Sylvia Ellis; Production Secretary Alison Fuller; Film Editor McDonald Brown; Executive Producer for the Arts Council Rodney Wilson; Producer Jim Berrow; Director Catherine Collis; Arts Council of Great Britain in association with Central Television. |
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ACE211.2 (00:00:00 - 00:09:15) ACE211.3 (00:09:15 - 00:16:45) ACE211.4 (00:16:45 - 00:25:00) |
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