The Wall directed by Alan Parker holds up even today.
I did a tiny bit , a few full size profiles of artillary guns, whilst my Nina, my mother, created a series of backdrops like this view of LA from the swimming pool scene
Filmed at Pinewood, a strange place at the time since they had in house crews unlike the four walllers of Elstree and Shepperton, it was noted as a most unhappy film to be on.
Back in the 1970's Shepperton Studios was the smaller of the big three studios in the UK. EMI had Kubrick, Pinewood had Bond and Shepperton took up the smaller films like Flash Gordon, The River Queen and Oliver, the exterior set still surviving.
The Studios were adjacent to Queen Mary Reservoir and my home sailing club and on some Weekends one could hear the Moody Blues and The Who rehearsing. According to my father "art is a contagious disease of life" so it became inevitable I too was about to succumb.
I include an interview I did for Tim Dickenson on these two commercials I art directed for Howard Guard back in the 80's.
Our studio, a run-down Methodist Church in Battersea was empty, not what one wants when a potential client visits. Terry arrived along his vfx supervisor and DoP. We had a long table usually occupied with jobs in hand, models, references, etc, but now glaringly bare. It was soon filled with references from Ghormogast by Mervyn Peake and Paraniesi