Figure 1.--Two of the Llewelyn Davies boys are seen here in their red berets and cream smocks as portrayed in the BBC production "The Lost Boys".
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Figure 1.--Two of the Llewelyn Davies boys are seen here in their red berets and cream smocks as portrayed in the BBC production "The Lost Boys". |
The BBC in 1978 produced a made for TV film about J.M. Barie and the five boys of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. The film is based on the book Andrew Birkin and the Lost Boys published in 1979 by Andrew Birkin. The relationship is brilliantly explored in the book and summarized in the BBC film. The costuming in the film appears to have been reasobably accurate. The boys wear back buttoning smocks and berets which is how the Llewelyn Davies were ctully dressed. I am not sure, however, how accurate the colors were. In the film the boys wear red berets and cream smocks. As the available family photographs are black and white and thus we are unsure just what color berets and smocks that the boys actually wore. In additioin, the smocks that the oys wore in the film seem rather shorter than the ones the Llewelyn Davies boys actually wore, or normally worn by other English or French boys. I don't think I have seen boys in the late 19th and early 20th century wearing such short smocks. The actual smocks I have seen were much longer.
The BBC in 1978 produced a TV mini-series about J.M. Barie and the five boys of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. The film is based on the book J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys published in 1979 by Andrew Birkin. The series was directed by Rodney Bennett. Andrew Birkin helped adapt his book. It was also called "J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys".
Rhemajor adult roles were: Ian Holm (J.M. Barrie), Maureen O'Brien (Mary Barrie), Ann Bell (Sylvia Llewelyn Davies), Tim Pigott-Smith (Arthur Llewelyn Davies), and Anna Cropper (Mary Hodgson). The boys were prepared by: Barnaby Holm and Paul Holmes (George ), Nicholas Borton (Jack), Jean-Benoît Louveaux (Peter), Sebastian Buss (Michael).
The mini-series is the story of J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the Llewelyn-Davies family is brilliantly explored in the book and summarized in the BBC film. It explains how Perer Pan came about as a story he made up for George, Jack, Peter, Michael, and Nicholas vand then later adopts all five boys.
Figure 2.--The boys were costumed in back-buttoning smocks. The smocks seem, however, much shorter than the ones the boys acutally wore. |
The costuming in the film appears to have been reasobably accurate. The boys wear back buttoning smocks and berets which is how the Llewelyn Davies were ctully dressed. I am not sure, however, how accurate the colors were. In the film the boys wear red berets and cream smocks. As the available family photographs are black and white and thus we are unsure just what color berets and smocks that the boys actually wore. In additioin, the smocks that the oys wore in the film seem rather shorter than the ones the Llewelyn Davies boys actually wore, or normally worn by other English or French boys. I don't think I have seen boys in the late 19th and early 20th century wearing such short smocks. The actual smocks I have seen were much longer.
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