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Take Nobody’s Word for It

Professor Ian Fells and me on the set of ‘Take Nobody’s Word for It’: a reconstruction of the room seen in Vermeer’s interiors, furnished as for ‘The Music Lesson’
Professor Ian Fells and me on the set of ‘Take Nobody’s Word for It’: a reconstruction of the room seen in Vermeer’s interiors, furnished as for ‘The Music Lesson’

A popular science TV magazine, directed by George Auckland and Hendrik Ball, BBC One, 12th March 1989. A large part of this programme is devoted to the proposition that Johannes Vermeer made use of the camera obscura as an aid to painting. Vermeer’s studio is reconstructed at full size. I play the part of the painter. The programme won a Royal Television Society award.

The projected image in a camera obscura of the set of ‘Take Nobody’s Word for It’, simulating Vermeer’s ‘The Music Lesson’. The woman standing (seen upside down and from the back) was played by Carol Vorderman.
The projected image in a camera obscura of the set of ‘Take Nobody’s Word for It’, simulating Vermeer’s ‘The Music Lesson’. The woman standing (seen upside down and from the back) was played by Carol Vorderman.

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