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Powell & Pressburger Images - The Red Shoes (1948) / The Monk Gibbon Book

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These images are scanned in from the Monk Gibbon book.
They're not great scans, you'll have to find a copy of the book to see the originals :)

The Red Shoes Ballet - A Critical Study
[Saturn Press, 1948]

Massine as the shoemaker	In rehearsal	Massine and Moira Shearer at the barre
... but only a few can mime with genius	... Lermontov forsees a future ballerina	Original oil-painted design by Hein Heckroth
Heckroth's sense of the grotesque would have pleased Anderson	The apotheosis of human puppetry	The Dead City
Light-hearted, headstrong youth embarked on it's self-chosen course	The Great Ballroom A scene suggesting Degas and the romantic ballet	Moira Shearer alone in the village square
Robert Helpmann and Moira Shearer	The Fun Fair Highly stylised choreography, modernistic in conception	Massine proves once more that a great dancer can seem lighter than air
Heckroth design The Great Wave	Despite her lover's pleading the girl moves towards the Shoemaker's shop	The Lover contemplates the shop window with distrust
The shoemaker tempts her with the shoes	She is launched upon her mad career of dancing	Her partners sink exhausted around her
When they have all collapsed she dances down a long corridor	She would like to return home but is snatched mysteriously back on the very threshold	She dances with a newspaper-fame, and sees it suddenly transformed into her lover
The monsters of the subconscious assail her	Pressing ever more closely in upon her	From the Dead City she passes on to fresh images of horror
Back in the villages square she is spurned from the church door by all except the priest	She threatens the cobbler with his own knife	The priest saves her from his clutches, lifts her up
Unfastens the shoes from her feet, and she dies
Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell at Monte Carlo	Design for the Red Shoes ballet by Hein Heckroth	Hein Heckroth in his studio
Powell explains a point to Mr. Rank who sponsored the film	Sir Thomas Beecham and Brian Easdale expound the score	Robert Helpmann as The Lover
Helpmann, Massine and Moira Shearer at rehearsal in Lermontov's company	Moira Shearer and Robert Helpmann in the Red Shoes Ballet	Moira Shearer a moment of leisure for la ballerina
The Shoemaker and his victim a study in movement	On the Set Powell watches Massine, Helpmann and Shearer rehearse an incident	The Great Camera Helpmann, Shearer and Powell
Jack Cardiff The man who swung the camera	Original design The village square	Original design The dance of exhaustion begins
Original design Girl and partner	Original design The fun fair	Original design The great ballroom