The opening scene of a rare kinescope of a 1955 Ford Star Jubilee telecast of the original Broadway production of Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, directed by Charles Laughton and starring Lloyd Nolan as Captain Queeg:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
Archives for December 28, 2011
TT: Almanac
“In any kind of artistic activity, it is always the impulse, the expressive need, the inner compulsion which dictates in the first place, and not the technical equipment. Just as a hungry man will always get hold of food, if need be by force, so every original artist finds, as a rule unconsciously, the necessary technical means to still his spiritual hunger.”
Carl Flesch, Memoirs (trans. Hans Keller)