Reference guides for Film and TV

[Graham Sumner]

Hi Jim

In one of those sites I think this quote by the designer Powell sums thing up nicely.

I'm not interested in an exact replica of the period. I look at the period, how it should be, how it could be, and then I do my own version."

Thanks for the links though. Interesting to see many of the books I already have even mine was in there, no wonder they get things wrong!

Robert wrote:

Of course, when the producers found out at the eleventh hour that they were for sure going to become a laughing stock when they would retain the references to ‘Russian knights’ instead of ‘Sarmatians’, they called in the aid of John Matthews and Linda Malcor. Since they were no historians and had very little time to begin with, not much could be changed after all.

Matthews did apparently get the Viking Runes off Excaliber in time!

Graham.