Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22519 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL | 1981 | 1981-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 4 mins 32 secs Credits: Production: Brian Dunckley Cast: Judy Robertson Genre: Amateur Subject: Women |
| Summary Amateur comedy by Brian Dunckley, a member of Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association, that uses sound effects and picture to mock the beauty routine of a young woman in the 1980s. Entered in the Golden Knight International Amateur Film Festival Malta. |
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Description
Amateur comedy by Brian Dunckley, a member of Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association, that uses sound effects and picture to mock the beauty routine of a young woman in the 1980s. Entered in the Golden Knight International Amateur Film Festival Malta.
Credit: Brislot Presents
Credit: Judy Robertson in
Title: Sounds Beautiful [title over make-up tidily arranged on a dressing table]
A young woman adjusts her headscarf at the start of her beauty routine.
First, she...
Amateur comedy by Brian Dunckley, a member of Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association, that uses sound effects and picture to mock the beauty routine of a young woman in the 1980s. Entered in the Golden Knight International Amateur Film Festival Malta.
Credit: Brislot Presents
Credit: Judy Robertson in
Title: Sounds Beautiful [title over make-up tidily arranged on a dressing table]
A young woman adjusts her headscarf at the start of her beauty routine.
First, she applies a Revlon face mask. She opens a vanity case and begins to manicure her nails. She selects nail polish from the abundance of bottles on her dressing table. Close-up of the chosen nail varnish. She paints her nails.
She slowly peels off the face mask. She applies dollops of moisturiser to her face.
Next, she squirts foundation from a tube to smooth over her complexion.
Eyebrows are plucked.
Close-up of her eye as she applies bright blue eyeliner pencil. Blue powder eye shadow follows, applied liberally with a brush. Close-up of a mascara brush pulled from its tube and applied to eyelashes.
Next, she dabs foundation powder on her face as a highlight.
Bright pink twist-up lipstick emerges from its container. She carefully applies this and follows it with lip gloss.
Make-up complete, she pulls off the headscarf and shakes free her 1980s layered bob style hair. She brushes her hair back and sprays on far too much Silvikrin hairspray. A spray of perfume follows.
A glance in the mirror and she is satisfied. She reaches for an Embassy cigarette. She lights it with explosive effect. Blackened cigarette still dangling from her mouth, hair mussed up, face and clean white blouse covered in black soot, she blinks at the mirror in disbelief. She rests her cheek on her hand in a strop and gives up.
Title: End [over picture of the mucky disarray of her make-up and cigarettes]
Context
The film was produced by Brian Dunckley for the Golden Knight International Amateur Film Festival Malta. He created a series of amateur films. A few of these were also comedies such as those such as Dearly Beloved and Footsteps. However, Dunckley also produced films of various genres such as documentaries and thrillers.
The film was created during a period where British sitcoms and comedies were made. The 1970s and 1980s saw UK television broadcasting shows such as Fawlty Towers, Blackadder...
The film was produced by Brian Dunckley for the Golden Knight International Amateur Film Festival Malta. He created a series of amateur films. A few of these were also comedies such as those such as Dearly Beloved and Footsteps. However, Dunckley also produced films of various genres such as documentaries and thrillers.
The film was created during a period where British sitcoms and comedies were made. The 1970s and 1980s saw UK television broadcasting shows such as Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and Only Fools and Horses. The use of the exaggerated sound effects throughout the movie can be described as ‘camp’ comedy. The film does not only reflect the popularity of comedy during this period but also the role of makeup in women’s lives in the 1980s. Women began to wear more bold makeup such as using bright blue eyeshadow and creating thicker eyebrows. The 1970s and 1980s saw these extravagant styles being worn by music icons such as Madonna and Annie Lennox. Makeup also began to be worn by men and certain subcultures such as the goths. Makeup was key for self-expression. One of the brands included in this film is Revlon. This was originally launched in America until it began to grow and branch out worldwide, still being used today. This was used alongside brands such as Maybelline and MAC. Makeup was not the only industry/market growing in this period. The North had faced several economic issues in this period such as the decline of industry in areas like Newcastle with the closure of the Vickers Elswick. Instead, these cities focused their attention on things such as education and leisure. Nightclubs especially became popular such as the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. These reinforced this use of makeup, fashion and self-expression. The position of women had changed from what it had been at the beginning of the century as well. With the feminist movement questioning the role of the women in society and continuing its work throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Women moved away from the domestic sphere with more in employment with access to a variety of careers, although there was still the glass ceiling in certain sectors. Efforts had been made to ensure equal pay. Makeup also continued to grow with women being encouraged to express themselves. Therefore, Dunckley created this film to poke fun at women’s makeup routine and followed a trend seen in British comedy television sitcoms of the 1970s and 1980s but also allows insight into society at the time, especially regarding the role of women which is still relevant today. References: Archive for Change, 1980s (2011) <https://archiveforchange.org/decades/1980s/>. |
