Romanza: A Frank Lloyd Wright Documentary Trailer - [2:46]
David
Video: Trailer for 'Romanza' - FLW in California
It's only a trailer, and full judgement will have to await the movie itself, but in the meantime:
- It moves too quickly;
- The photgraphy is no better than ok;
- The music is hokey;
- The attempts to synchrnonize the visuals with the music are even hokier.
A trailer is supposed to make the viewer want to see the whole movie. This one, for me, did not.
- It moves too quickly;
- The photgraphy is no better than ok;
- The music is hokey;
- The attempts to synchrnonize the visuals with the music are even hokier.
A trailer is supposed to make the viewer want to see the whole movie. This one, for me, did not.
I don't know what it is, but it isn't Kundert, whose perf pattern (said to be a stylization of the local hills) shows at 1:34 and 1:59. Maybe Buehler. Also curious about 1:05, 1:09, 1:14, 1:21, 1:31, 1:49, 1:49, 1:56, 2:00 and 2:03 (which is an inside view of the same building as 1:31). Maybe we should see the movie and hope for a better choice of music.
Good morning, Tom & Reidy (where did you hear the hill allusion for Kundert?)
No, it is not Kundert, but late Usonian period like Kundert. I hope some one sees the film and confirms or corrects me.
By my reading of this dark image, the upper units are bookmatched clerestory perfs, (like Hagan '54) and an articulated perf laylight below (like the Scott-Roberts remodel in '55).
My thought is now Thaxton, 1953 Using Wright 1943-59: a perspective drawing does have a high clerestory of 2-3 units. The plan marks a NW clerestory above the kitchen where I imagine the laylight in the picture would then be above or near the dining table. The plan is hard to read but I don't think I see annotation perforated boards...there are some illegible words over the dining table.
(A caveatt: the other unique ornamental features of Thaxton-the carport screen and the very interesting perforated block design would seem to preclude additional perf boards.)
Mathews, '50 no clerestory and seems too early for this perf design
Pearce. unlikely as a block solarhemisphere structure. (excepting, of course, the great Marden house with its perf.)
No, it is not Kundert, but late Usonian period like Kundert. I hope some one sees the film and confirms or corrects me.
By my reading of this dark image, the upper units are bookmatched clerestory perfs, (like Hagan '54) and an articulated perf laylight below (like the Scott-Roberts remodel in '55).
My thought is now Thaxton, 1953 Using Wright 1943-59: a perspective drawing does have a high clerestory of 2-3 units. The plan marks a NW clerestory above the kitchen where I imagine the laylight in the picture would then be above or near the dining table. The plan is hard to read but I don't think I see annotation perforated boards...there are some illegible words over the dining table.
(A caveatt: the other unique ornamental features of Thaxton-the carport screen and the very interesting perforated block design would seem to preclude additional perf boards.)
Mathews, '50 no clerestory and seems too early for this perf design
Pearce. unlikely as a block solarhemisphere structure. (excepting, of course, the great Marden house with its perf.)
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Could it be a piece of Oboler that we haven't seen before ?
Or, did a bit of non-California Wright slip into the film, or the trailer ? I'm reminded of an article on Wright in the current issue of a magazine called (I believe) Americas -- published by a Spanish organization. Included in the illustrations on the opening page of the article (but not mentioned in the text) is a photo of the Farnsworth house . . . !
SDR
Or, did a bit of non-California Wright slip into the film, or the trailer ? I'm reminded of an article on Wright in the current issue of a magazine called (I believe) Americas -- published by a Spanish organization. Included in the illustrations on the opening page of the article (but not mentioned in the text) is a photo of the Farnsworth house . . . !
SDR
I wondered that also because there are more Obler perfs marked on the plans. We know the Gatehouse perf design from 1941 but not the Eaglefeather perf design. (Again, though, this perf seems a later design than 40's to me.)
When was the Obler Continuation last in the drafting room?
Do you suppose a part of the new construction there?
SDR- non-CA-that's a possibility I hope is outlandish.....
When was the Obler Continuation last in the drafting room?
Do you suppose a part of the new construction there?
SDR- non-CA-that's a possibility I hope is outlandish.....