Concept and creative process
Titles for ‘The Phoenix and the Carpet’, a children’s drama series. It was an adaptation of E. Nesbit’s story about the five children of an Edwardian family in London, who experience a series of extraordinary adventures with the aid of their magic carpet. The title captions were filmed on a rostrum camera, centred within a vignette bordered by the magic carpet design. The flames of fire composited over the whole scene as a film optical, were an allusion to the birth of the Phoenix in the story.