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Orson Welles on Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights | The
Orson Welles was best known for his work as an American film director and actor – Citizen Kane being his pivotal career piece, which he co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in. In 1955 Welles did a series for the BBC called Sketchbook where in six, 15 minute shows he drew in a sketchbook “to illustrate his reminiscences for the camera … [he] served as host and interviewer, his commentary including documentary facts and his own personal observations.” Perhaps most interesting to the contemporary viewer, weren’t his memories of movie stars and film making, but rather his very modern and apt observations about privacy, the passport and personal rights. I wonder why it is that so many of us look like criminals in a police lineup when we have our pictures taken for a passport. I suppose it’s the unconscious foreknowledge of the scrutiny to which our likeness will be subjected that gives us that hangdog, guilty look.Welcome to the website of the house and Museum of Sir John Soane, R.A., architect. Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837. Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife (1815), he lived here alone, constantly adding to and rearranging his collections. Having been deeply disappointed by the conduct of his two sons, one of whom survived him, he determined to establish the house as a museum to which ‘amateurs and students’ should have access.
Sir John Soane's Museum - London
Soane Education
Audio Tours Visitors can learn more about the Museum, and enhance their visit around the Soane, by listening to an Audio Tour. Download these recordings to your MP3 player and use them as your personal guide on a fascinating visit to Sir John Soane's Museum. The ‘ General Architecture Guide ’ is suitable for anyone over the age of about twelve. The ‘ Professional Architecture Guide ’ is designed for professional architects, architectural students and those with a keen interest in architecture.