[Leica] IMGS: More Wales

[Mark Rabiner]

One of Tom Jones hits being  " "Green, Green Grass of Home".
And not the  "Black, Black Coal of Home".

Perpetuating the Welsh heritage, and commemorating the vision and virtue of
the following Welsh patriots in the founding of the City, Commonwealth, and
Nation: William Penn, 1644-1718, proclaimed freedom of religion and planned
New Wales later named Pennsylvania. Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, third
President of the United States, composed the Declaration of Independence.
Robert Morris, 1734-1806, foremost financier of the American Revolution and
signer of the Declaration of Independence. Governor Morris, 1752-1816, wrote
the final draft of the Constitution of the United States. John Marshall,
1755-1835, Chief Justice of the United States and father of American
constitutional law.
‹Philadelphia City Hall


On 5/1/15 2:09 AM, "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:

> 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 ŒAberfan Mining Disaster
> images¹). Most of the coal mining has now disappeared from the valleys, but
> the tradition of hard men lives on. One of the most famous Œsons of the
> valley¹ 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
>> 
>>
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