Alison de vere biography of barack

Commonly, references to the legend put Eros' name first, but since Apuleius's story focuses on Psyche — and sets a precedent for later fairy tales from Snow White to Bluebeard — the title reversal is entirely appropriate. Without dialogue, the story is acted out against a background of Greek-style music and song. It is skilfully done, but as with Silas Marner the concentration on following the given plotline precludes Alison's more imaginative touches.

It was finally completed in While she was working on Psyche and Eros Alison moved to St Just, near Penzance, Cornwall, with her mother, who was suffering senile dementia, and set up a studio with the assistance of her son Ben Weschke. The Alison de Vere episode aired on Channel 4 on 19 April There is a bench dedicated to her memory in Holland Park, London.

At the age of 67 Alison decided to step down from film production, and closed down her company in She worked as a freelance animator on Telemagination 's TV series The Animals of Farthing Wood and in Joy Whitby persuaded her to direct, animate and supervise a children's TV series of 5-minute episodes for Grasshopper. The episodes of Mouse and Mole were adapted by Joy from the books by Joyce Dunbar, and Alison meticulously recreated the style of the illustrations by James Mayhew, with rendered trace and paint work by the team who had worked with her on East of the Moon.

The charming, gentle and beautifully drawn stories are enhanced by the voices of Richard Briars as Mouse and Alan Bennett as Mole, and it is sad that of the 26 episodes written and recorded only 19 were completed. Joy Whitby had planned on two series of 13 episodes each, which in traditional scheduling would mean one episode a week for three months, but she was unable to raise the money for the second series.

Grasshopper Productions put up the money itself for the first six episodes of series two, hoping to secure a deal to complete it, but when this did not happen the last seven episodes were put on hold. In BBC1 aired the first series in the 3. The first 13 episodes were shot on the rostrum camera, but for the second series the artwork was scanned and the frames compiled on computer by Ben, using the Animo system recommended by his friend Morgan Francis, who was then the Technical Director at Telemagination.

It was always intended that the second series should be completed, and Joy Whitby got Joyce Dunbar to write the story for a half-hour TV special, Mouse and Mole at Christmas Timewhich Alison storyboarded. The final episodes remained shelved, but in Grasshopper produced the special for the BBCwith Briers and Bennett reprising their roles it was one of Briers' last recorded performancesas well as voicing other characters along with Imelda Staunton, and animation by Studio Liddell for Laughing Gravy Media from Alison de Vere's original storyboard.

The series was not taken up, but the film won the children's prize at the Celtic Media Festival. Alison de Vere died on 2 Januaryaged She had been working on the storyboard and layouts for A Small Miracle and Ben subsequently directed the minute film with the aid of Morgan Francis, now running his own London-based animation company Spider Eyewhich subsequently relocated to St Just.

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