Paul Barnes
Directing
Known For
A short-lived studio discussion programme about television. Originally presented by Paul Barnes and Chris Dunkley, from the second series onwards the programme was chaired by William Hardcastle.
In Vision
The Painter and the Engines (1967) follows painter David Shepherd’s race against time to record on canvas the magic and romance of steam during the locomotives’ last weeks at South London’s Nine Elms sheds.
The Painter and the Engines
Black Five is filmed around Carnforth station in Lancashire, a location which had been the setting for the archetypal railway romance, David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945) over 20 years earlier.
Black Five
King George V (1970) charts the history of the celebrated locomotive, which was taken out of service in 1965 but offered a length of siding at Bulmers of Hereford to continue running, in steam.