German-born production designer Alfred Junge (1886 - 1964) had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years he joined the Gorlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production, he worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Along with many German emigres Junge began his career in cinema at Berlin's UFA studios, working there as an art director from 1920 until 1926, when he joined the production team of Ewald André Dupont who was relocating to British International Pictures in London. He remained with BIP at Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in France with Marcel Pagnol. From 1932 he remained based in Britain. Designer is a broad term for a person who designs any of a variety of things. ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Map of Germany showing Görlitz Görlitz ( pronunciation, Lusatian: Zhorjelc, Czech Zhorelec) is a town in Germany on the river Neiße, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony, opposite to the Polish town of Zgorzelec, with which it was until 1945 united. ... (help· info), IPA: , is the capital city as well as a state of Germany, and also the countrys largest city. ... UFA logo Universum Film AG, better known as Ufa or UFA, was the principal film studio in Germany, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through World War II, and a major force in world cinema during its brief existence from 1917 to 1945. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ewald André Dupont (1891-1956) was a German movie director. ... Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production company active from 1927 until 1970. ... Historically, the name Elstree Studios refers to any of several film studios that were based in the town of Elstree and Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, England. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...

Michael Balcon put him in charge of the new Gaumont-British art department where his organisational skills as well as talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time. After Gaumont Britain's first real supervising art director moved to MGM's new British operation where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a brief spell spent interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Junge returned to London where he began work with Powell and Pressburger in 1939 on “Contraband”, the first of eight pictures he made with them. Sir Michael Balcon (May 19, 1896–October 17, 1977) was a British film producer, best known for his work with the Ealing Studios. ... Gaumont Pictures were founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London (see Wiktionary:London for the name in other languages) is the capital of the United Kingdom and England. ... Powell and Pressburger were a British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Contraband consists of items of which possession may be illegal, depending on the variety and the country or the age or sex of the possessor. ...

The last of these was “Black Narcissus” in 1947, whose striking Himalaya sets earned Junge the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He received a second nomination in 1953 for the Arthurian epic "Knights of the Round Table". He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the Royal Academy in London. This was a sketch of “The Road to Estaminet do Pont” which he had done for “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” in 1943. Black Narcissus (1947) is a film by the British director-writer team of Powell & Pressburger, based on the novel by Rumer Godden. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ... The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Britain. ... The Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle, the Matter of Britain. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ... Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) and Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Anton Walbrook) reunited after WWI. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is a film by the British filmmakers Powell & Pressburger, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...