One of George Harrison Marks’s lesser-known movie credits is for the German comedy Otto und die Nackte Welle (Otto and the Nude Wave). I’ve not seen the film but from what I gather Otto makes wildlife documentaries. Out filming one day, he comes across a Von Noeltinghoff filming some nude Continue Reading
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Pamela Green — mid ’50s
Here is a couple of early pictures of Pamela Green taken by George Harrison Marks in the mid-1950s before they started publishing Kamera in 1957.
Ever the Lady Killer
Here’s a picture of a very dapper looking George. I presume at the Gerrard Street Studios in the early ’50s. On the wall centre right is a picture of Norman Wisdom. The other two portraits I recognise but can’t put a name to them. SaveSave
More tea, Vicar?
Back in 1964 a Harrison Marks photograph of Dawn Grayson, real name Kay Kirkham, wearing only sunglasses and a smile was used for a British Safety Council poster. The caption read “But I always wear my eye protection”. Naturally it caused a bit of a stir. Dawn Grayson, Harrison Marks, Continue Reading
Kamera on Location by Harrison Marks
In April 1957, when the first issue of Kamera was ready for the printers, Pamela Green and Harrison Marks decided to go to the Isles of Scilly again — this time taking Marie Deveraux and Lorraine Burnett to work with them. The object of which was not only to take Continue Reading
Season’s Greetings
Every year Pamela Green and George Harrison Marks would send out a custom Christmas card. This is the image from the front of their card in 1961, the year the film Naked as Nature Intended came out. The caption inside reads “Well — Do YOU read the small print on contracts!” Continue Reading
George Harrison Marks at the BFI
Who links George Harrison Marks, The Beatles, Ken Russell, Peter Cook, Richard Lester, Fairport Convention, The Goons, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, cartoonist Bob Godfrey (Roobarb) and Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller? The answer: Mr Bruce Lacey. And if Bruce Lacey himself has somehow remained ‘off our radar’ in recent Continue Reading
Harrison Marks Model: Lorraine Burnett
Lorraine Burnett appeared in Solo No.2, well over a dozen issues of Kamera between 1957 and 1961, and two Kamera 8mm cine films, Exhibition (1960) and Showtime (1960). Besides working as a model for George Harrison Marks, she appeared on stage at the Windmill Theatre (1956). She also worked at the Panama Continue Reading
Mister Entertainment Bruce Forsyth
Here’s a fab a picture that most of you won’t have expected to see — George Harrison Marks with Brucie. This is from the photoshoot for the Mister Entertainment LP by Bruce Forsyth with Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra put out by Parlophone (PCS 3013) sometime around 1960-1963.