Mr & Mrs Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough England 1749. TRANSMISSION PROMETHEUS, Director Johnny Hardstaff. Fact: It was just one of four paintings chosen to represent British art in an exhibition in 1953 celebrating Queen Elizabeth II coronation in Paris. And painted for the union of the couple depicted, a paradigm of the paternalist and capitalist society of 18th-century England symbolised by their properties of pastures and fields in the background. It remains unfinished, in the lap of Frances Carter left blank except for a lone feather, perhaps a Pheasant. “A powerful myth has grown up about 'Barry Lyndon' that Kubrick’s shots are imitations of paintings of the period, Producer Bernard Williams actually told an audience at the Academy in 2006: ‘We used to copy the paintings in terms of light and where people were sitting. If you look at the movie, every scene is like a painting. Kubrick put together an archive of thousands of reproductions of paintings cut from books and used them as shorthand with his collaborators. ‘“Stanley,” I’d say, “we need a call sheet for tomorrow.” So he’d say, “Get all the paintings out.” The paintings became our Bible." - Bill Krohn, Masters of Cinema: Stanley Kubrick. #Prometheus #PrometheusMovie #PrometheusFilm #Transmission #ScienceFiction #Alien #Art #Space #Horror #Culture #StanleyKubrick #Paintings #Storyboard #MastersofCinema #RidleyScott #JohnnyHardstaff #Trivia #BillKrohn #Author #BernardWilliams #Producer