Thomas William Chantrell (December 20, 1916 - July 15, 2001), commonly known as Tom Chantrell , is an English illustrator and film poster artist.
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Tom Chantrell was born in Ardwick, Manchester, son of Emily and James Chantrell, 64-year-old trapeze artist and jazz musician. James has toured the music hall around the world by performing a trapeze action called "The Fabulous Chantrells". Chantrell grew up in a female family, the youngest of nine children.
Chantrell showed a flair for commercial illustrations when, at the age of five, he was asked by his teacher at Armitage Street School to paint a picture of Tom's character from Charles Kingsley's Maps Tom Chantrell
Careers
Within days of leaving college in 1933, Chantrell found a position in the local advertising agency, Rydales, leaving a few months later to join another agency where he worked for about a year. Chantrell's position ended after he was wrongly blamed for a substandard job; after a dispute with his manager, Chantrell was fired. Unable to find another job in Manchester, Chantrell moved to London in 1934 to live with one of his sisters, Phyllis, in Hampstead. He works in a printing company, where he develops his sklls in silkscreen printing. After two years, he moved to a small design studio, Bateman Artists, in Carmelite Street, near Blackfriars Bridge. Batemans share building work - and design - with a larger agency, Allardyce Palmer, whose Batemans subcontract works for industrial clients such as British Aluminum, and Percival Provost. Allardyce Palmer has just won an account with two new movie studios, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox; the cinema was not considered a very glamorous industry at that time, it was also inherited to Batemans. Through this association, Chantrell had the opportunity to start work on cinema advertising, designing his first movie poster in 1938 for The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse .
Military Service
He continued with posters until World War II, when he was summoned for military service. Listed as a conscientious opponent, he was assigned to the Non-Combat Corps, then volunteered for tasks with the Royal Engineer's bomb squad unit at Tunbridge Wells, and spent most of the war on unexploded weapons and mines on the beaches at beach. Kent and Sussex. In the military, Chantrell developed an insult to authority after an important task to defuse a flying bomb near Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Sheppey; the commander was then awarded the OBE, despite absences from the leave operation. In his final year in military service, Chantrell was transferred to a war propaganda unit, where he was able to place his artistic talents in a war effort. He was fired in 1946, and he returned to work at Allardyce Palmer, now at Kingsway in Holborn. Here, he is increasingly working on movie posters, starting with Forever Amber (1947) and Brighton Rock .
1950s and 60s
In 1950 Batemans was purchased by Allardyce Palmer, and the combined agent continued to receive much work through the Warner Brothers film distributor, British PathÃÆ'Â ©. Poster artist Tom Beauvais joins the company as Chantrell's assistant. In 1957 Chantrell was appointed art director of Allardyce Palmer Entertainment Entertainment Division at Screen House in Wardour Street, Soho. The film work flooded, and Chantrell worked on a number of epic films such as East of Eden (1955), The King and I (1956), Anastasia 1956), Bus Stop (1956), Affair To Remember (1957) and South Pacific (1958).
Chantrell worked for two leading horror filmmakers, Hammer Films and Amicus Productions, and for several years worked as a "home artist" at Hammer, designing famous posters for films like The Nanny (1965) and > Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969). For Amicus, Chantrell generated publicity for a number of fantasy movies based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' books, including The Land That Time Forgot (1975). His paintings from this era have been noted for their dreadful use of color to emphasize primordial horror elements and for the use of bold and red to convey shock, as exemplified in his poster for One Million Years BC. (1966) and In the Earth Core (1976). Chantrell Poster One Million Years B.C. is based on a very popular publicity photo of actress Raquel Welch in a feather bikini that became something of a cultural phenomenon and the best-selling pinup image.
Chantrell designed many posters for the movie comedy series Carry On . Some of these films are conceived as a parody of other contemporary films, and Chantrell also produces pastiche artwork from the original movie posters. At least twice this causes issues with copyright; the poster for Carry On Spying (1964) must be changed to avoid seeing too many Renato Fratini posters for From Russia with Love ; and its early Carry On Cleo (1964) posters were withdrawn and redesigned after a lawsuit from 20th Century Fox alleged that the delivery was too similar to the original Howard Terpning Cleopatra artwork.
In the 1960s Chantrell often drew artwork for 5 different movies or double bills at one time.
Star Wars
In 1977 Chantrell was commissioned by 20th Century Fox to produce an art poster for the British release of a space fantasy movie, Star Wars. Several promotional posters have been produced to advertise Star Wars before Chantrell's engagement; artist Tom Jung was originally commissioned by Fox to create a poster, which was used to advertise USA releases. Now known as A ' A style, this work of art is considered by Lucasfilm to be "too dark" and they commissioned a reworking of the Brothers Hildebrandt , and their Style ' B ' posters are distributed to British cinemas. Since these posters have been produced while Star Wars is still in production, the artists have worked without reference to actual player photos. Fox executives think the posters are too abstract and eager to assign a new version with the resemblance of the ultimate actors fully embodied. Chantrell was invited with his family for the film premiere, and he was given a box of movie stills and publicity photos to use as a reference for his paintings. It took him a month to complete the longest poster he had ever done on a poster. When finished, the poster of Tom Chantrell C ' C ' quickly replaced Hildebrandts ' Style ' B < span> ' on the cinema billboard, becoming one of Chantrell's most widely known works.
The Chantrell poster depicts a trio of characters Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford who brandished a blaster weapon, in a style inspired by Frank McCarthy's poster for The Dirty Dozen (1967). Behind them, a large picture of Darth Vader looms holding a lightsaber, surrounded by smaller characters and a montage of warrior stars in combat. The poster was recorded because Hamill showed his weapon and looked directly at the viewers. Due to Chantrell's long association with Hammer production, he put Peter Cushing in his poster; this is the only Star Wars theater poster featuring Cushing's similarity.
Chantrell posters were often produced before the film was made to raise money from investors, and he did not see the films he had drawn; he will receive a groove line and some handfuls and use friends and family to pose. An example is taking a photo of herself trying to look like a vampire for Dracula Awaken from the Tomb . In his work for Star Wars, although he has seen movies and has photographic references from actors, he asks his wife Shirley to pose as a body model for Princess Leia in their back garden, wearing a dressing sauce and holding a plastic sword toy.
Other jobs
Among the films he designed artwork for him was The King and I , Von Ryan's Express One Million Years BC , The Anniversary
Chantrell's poster art for the international release of Star Wars was featured in 1979's Carol Titelman's The Art of Star Wars, where she is credited as "Tom Cantrell".
Later career
Chantrell's career shrank from the early 1980s. His portfolio was mostly built to work posters for exploitative movies, horror movies and British sex comedy, and when these movie genres are outdated, so does the style of illustrations. As design trends shift toward computer-based desktop publishing, demand for original artwork for movie posters declines. Chantrell moved to design a cover art for a home video title, but was eventually forced to retire.
In his final years, his work found a new appreciation with increasing interest in collecting film memorabilia.
Personal life
Tom Chantrell married his first wife, Alice, shortly before the start of his military service in 1940. Together they had two children, Stephen and Sue. In 1962, when he attended a drawing class of life at St Martin's Art School, he met an 18-year-old Chinese student, Shirley How Har Lui. They started a love affair and moved together in 1965. In 1968, Shirley gave birth to twin daughters, Jacqui and Louise. After nine years, Tom and Alice divorced, and Tom married Shirley.
Tom Chantrell died at the 84-year-old hospital on July 15, 2001, after suffering a heart attack.
Note
References
- Branaghan, Sim; Chibnall, Steve (2006). English movie poster: history illustrated . London: The British Film Institute. ISBN: 9781844572212.
See also
- Star Wars artist list
- Category: Movie poster by Tom Chantrell
External links
- Chantrell poster http://www.britposters.com/chantrell.htm
- Tom Chantrell on Wookieepedia, Star Wars wizards
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