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Where do you go in film making after you have made a home movie co-starring Peter Sellers and Princess Margaret? The film maker in question, Margaret's husband, Lord Snowdon, has found an answer: into offbeat, unblinking television documentaries. His first, dealing with old age and titled Don't Count the Candles, was shown in 21 countries and earned six awards (including two Emmys after its 1968 appearance on CBS). His second, which is called Love of a Kind and concerns Britons' infatuation with pets, can-and should-be seen on NBC's First Tuesday...
Like the earlier Snowdon effort, Love of a Kind is an evocative film essay on human loneliness and eccentricity. There are amusing flashes, as when a bosomy matron hatches a chick in her cleavage, but the general mood is straightforwardly clinical. Fetishism is obviously poignant and, at times, repugnant to Snowdon. Just as his work on aging contained some hospital footage as brutal as any in MASH, he is again deliberately trying to stir his audience. In one vignette, a curmudgeonly lady remarks that upon her death, she wants her 35 dogs "quietly put to sleep." Unfortunately...
...Rubbish. Snowdon, now 40, ventured into film making to prove that he is something more than just a royal consort and a still photographer. "A still photographer," he says, "is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read." Snowdon, of course, remains one of the world's most artful still-picture mechanics for Vogue and London's Sunday Times. He also lends his refined eye to Britain's Council of Industrial Design. It was Snowdon who, in a speech to the nation's souvenir manufacturers, condemned most of their output...
...EDWARD SNOWDON U.S. Army, Viet Nam APO San Francisco...
...Lord Snowdon wears a turtleneck with his tuxedo...