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Getting Dressed in WW1 – British Soldier

How a British WW1 soldier in the Artists Rifles dressed.

Director/Cinematographer: Nic Loven 

Producer/Costumier: Pauline Loven

Soldier: Reece Ackerman

Music from ‘Tell Them of Us’ composed and recorded by Chris Gordon

Voice-over: Liv Free

Make-up: Liv Free

The knitters: Katy-Jayne Lintott, Joanne Winwood, Sandra Gibbons, Freyalyn Close and Jackie Soans.

British Officer – Ross Stephenson

Artists Rifles Soldier – Ben Atkinson

Soldier – Adam Fox

Highlander – John Devlin

Highlander – Tom Greenshields

German soldiers – Luke Harrington, Blake Borland, Gavin Baker, Liam Kernagan, Michael Massmore, David McCabe, Kevin Gray, Josh Curran

Thanks to: Scott and Joanne Read for the loan of the Bell Tent

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Getting Dressed in WW1 – Young Woman

A young woman gets dressed in 1910s clothing.

Director/Cinematographer: Nic Loven

Producer/Costumier: Pauline Loven 

Hair and Make-up: Emily Johnson

Voice-over: Martha Milne

Young woman: Hannah Gaskell

Young woman’s friends: Charlotte Halse, Sophie Halse

Family: Victoria Rigby, Susan Thorpe, Ian Atkinson, Adam Fox, Tiffany Haynes

Soldier: Reece Ackerman

Other cast: Gordon MacFarlane, Judith MacFarlane, Tim Walker, Bryony Roberts, Carolyn and Emily Paige, Victoria Louise Newman, Sophie and Leo Newman, Graham Newton, Peter Halse, Sophie Halse, Faye Hinckley, Lucy Blanchard, Charlie Roberts, Faith Roberts, Lizzie Ashley, Emma Louise Clarke, Kate Loven.

To reproduce the 1910s knitting that appears in the film pick up a copy of Centenary Stitches knitting book here: http://www.northernlacepress.co.uk/CS…

There’s also a Centenary Stitches Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/centenarysti…

Thanks to support from https://www.loveniplaw.co.uk/

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Getting Dressed in WWI – VAD Nurse

The latest film in our ‘Getting Dressed’ series on the history of costume, ‘Getting Dressed in WWI – VAD Nurse’, has just topped one million views in a week:

Director/Cinematographer: Nic Loven

Producer/Costumier: Pauline Loven

Costume Assistant: Jasmine May

Music: Chris Gordon

Voice-over: Martha Milne

VAD Nurse: Tiffany Haynes

Nurses: Kate Loven Amy Beven Emma Louise Clarke

Patients: Alexander Doddy Matthew N Petley Adam Sturman Dave Cash

Visitors: Gail Hinkins Katie Odgaard

Location: Former VAD Hospital, Stanhope Hall, Horncastle 

Knitters: Loraine Burnett Rita Taylor Freyalan Close Wendee Wall Linda Fuller Angela Bannister Debra Ann Ashkar

With thanks to Sue Light, Scarlet Finders: http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/

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Knitting for the First World War

‘Tell Them of Us’, WWI Film

Even before the script was written for ‘Tell them of Us’, I spent a year researching and gathering vintage resources to begin creating the costume. The film was to be set in the Lincolnshire village of Thimbleby during WW1. As I worked I became aware of just how much clothing was hand knitted during the period and realised that to only include sewn clothing would have been a distortion… Continue reading “Knitting for the First World War”

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