Behind the Scenes: Far From The Madding Crowd Film (1967)

Julie Christie and Terence Stamp film Thomas Hardy s Far From the Madding Crowd includes great behind the scenes footage of the 1967 film from the Dorset countryside. Various shots show a Victorian travelling sheep fair being set up beside a hill in the countryside as part of the location filming of Far From the Madding Crowd; we see lions in a cage, a clown being made up, a brown horse having black makeup applied to become Black Bess, a large woman in a kind of fairy costume has garish makeup applied and smokes a cigarette. A girl in a Victorian hoopedskirt climbs a ladder and is about to walk a tightrope; director John Schlesinger checks the shot through a view finder and discusses with cameraman could be Nicolas Roeg (director of photography). The crowd and performers are filmed; we see people crowding into a circus tent, passing costumed characters on a stage at the front. More preparations as arc lamps are adjusted; a man has his teeth painted black. Two characters perform as Punc