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Collings Productions was an Australian design studio, founded by Geoffrey Collings and his wife Dulcie "Dahl" Collings.

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Dahl Collings was born Dulcie May Willmott in Adelaide in 1909, a daughter of teacher [1] Josiah Percival Willmott BSc and his wife Mabel Willmott, née McCullough. She was a trained artist, having studied at East Sydney Technical College under Rayner Hoff and at the J. S. Watkins Art School. [2]

She married Geoffrey Franklin Collings (born 10 November 1905) [3] on 15 December 1933. He called her "Dahl", by which name she was known thereafter. In 1935 they left for London, where Dahl was employed by László Moholy-Nagy designing a new store for his menswear company Simpsons of Piccadilly and Geoffrey with Erwin Wasey, an American advertising agency. Geoffrey was no newcomer to London, having worked for W. H. Smith in 1930. Geoff, Dahl, and Alistair Morrison held an exhibition called "Three Australians" at the Lund Humphries Galleries in 1938, receiving a favorable notice from E. McKnight Kauffer. [4]

Their film-making career began in 1935 and 1936 in the Spanish Pyrenees, shooting several rolls of film, which became their documentary Alquezar , and on their return from Europe, in Tahiti. [5] They returned to Sydney and set up a design studio with Richard Haughton James. Among other projects, Dahl designed costumes for the 1946 film The Overlanders and Eureka Stockade of 1949. Geoffrey found work as a film director with the Commonwealth Government's Department of Information. [6]

Sometime around 1950 they moved to New York City, where Dahl was employed by the Australian Trade Commission as a design consultant at the Rockefeller Center. They returned to Sydney in 1953 and set up Collings Productions as documentary film makers, with Geoffrey and Dahl as producers and designers. Their productions include:

In June 1998, at a Special General Meeting, shareholders in the company resolved to wind up its affairs [9]

Family

Their daughter Donna was born in Europe in 1937. On returning to Australia they had a home at 31 Captain Pipers Road, Vaucluse, where daughter Silver Ley Collings was born on 3 April 1940. [10]

Dahl died in 1988 and Geoffrey in 2000 [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Retirements". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales . No. 130. New South Wales, Australia. 12 November 1943. p. 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Dahl Collings". Design Institute of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Helena Lucey. "Geoffrey Collings (1905–2000)". Australian Graphic Design. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Geoffrey (1905–2000) and Dahl (1909–1988) Collings". Australian Graphic Design Association. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Heard Here and There". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 829. New South Wales, Australia. 4 January 1940. p. 17. Retrieved 9 October 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Shell Film Production". The National Advocate . New South Wales, Australia. 23 November 1948. p. 3. Retrieved 9 October 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "The Long Journey (1954)". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  8. ↑ "Director Says Films Fast Way to Learn". The Canberra Times . Vol. 39, no. 11, 101. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 March 1965. p. 8. Retrieved 9 October 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "Notice is hereby given that a special resolution passed at a meeting of shareholders of Collings". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette . No. B25. Australia, Australia. 23 June 1998. p. 1622. Retrieved 9 October 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 31, 907. New South Wales, Australia. 4 April 1940. p. 8. Retrieved 8 October 2023– via National Library of Australia.
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