Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Your comments about coal mining in Wales sadly reminded me of the 1966 Aberfan mining disaster in which a spoils tip (i.e. mountain) moved because of heavy rain and engulfed a school in the tiny village of Aberfan, killing 166 small children (try searching the internet for ?Aberfan Mining Disaster images?). Most of the coal mining has now disappeared from the valleys, but the tradition of hard men lives on. One of the most famous ?sons of the valley? is singer Tom Jones. Gerry Gerry Walden 023 8046 3076 > On 1 May 2015, at 06:37, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > The Academy award for Best Black-and-White Cinematography went to Arthur C. > Miller for the 1941 film " How Green Was My Valley". directed by John Ford > from a novel about coal mining in Wales. It won nine other Academy awards > including best picture, director and actor. > I read a big thing on it in a " Cinematographers on Cinematography " book > and the black he got in the print of the film was a source of amazement to > them all. Just like in paper print making Cinematographers talk a lot on > the > blacks they get in their prints which you see on the screen. Its always > what > you don't think. > This all made a big impression on me when I read it in my young teens. > Later on I found out that my moms dads name was not English but Welsh. > So I should look into my Welsh ancestry and Welsh culture. > Problem was in Powel's bookstore there are two thousand books on Ireland > one > thousand on Scotland and about twenty on Wales which you have to stand on a > stool they provide to grab ahold of one of them. > But that was before the internet. > But my point is ironically when I thought "coal mines" about how Wales > might > look I thought about rich blacks. Ironically from a film "How Green Was My > Valley". Which they were going to shoot in Technicolor but they ran out of > money. Which may have worked in their favor. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Green_Was_My_Valley_(film) > > > On 4/30/15 6:45 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > >> PESO: >> >> More Wales to mess with your ideas of what green looks like - in the rain, >> fog, and sunshine: >> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159909250 >> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159911871 >> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159911958 >> >> They have more shades of green in Wales than I've ever seen anywhere else! >> >> Tina >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information