Tempest, The

Alternative title: Sketches for the Tempest
Synopsis: Animation. Still images and animated fragments from George Dunning’s unfinished version of The Tempest.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1974/9
Duration: 8 mins; c7000 feet

Notes: The BFI National Archive holds 35mm preservation material only; no viewing copy. (2/2008). Material is held separately (mute) and also (with sound) within A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE DUNNING (1979) .
General: `Dunning, a visionary animator known best for YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968), had been working on THE TEMPEST, his most ambitious solo project, for five years before his death in 1979. Intended to be of feature length; these surviving images and knowledge of Dunnings’s extraordinary work from this period indicate that a uniquely beautifull Shakespeare film has been lost’ [McKernan, Luke and Olwen Terris. Walking Shadows: Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive. London: BFI, 1994, p.167].
Reviews: John Canemaker, The Dunning Touch, Sightlines, Winter 1986/7, pp26-8.

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