The Only Way Is Up
1988, singer Yazz (Yasmin Evans) proclaimed The Only Way Is Up.
Around that time fashion designer, film maker, former alpine ski racer and Head of the Bogner clothing brand, Willy Bogner Jr. called for the movie: Bogner World, to be shot in Scotland.
Back then, there was no official development body for the filming, arts and creative industries in Scotland. Don Jack was garnering a reputation as a creative director with an eye for the cinematic. Bogner would require someone with a knowledge of filmmaking production logistics and prepared to take on the particularly difficult task of finding filing locations, transport, props and accommodation during a closed winter season. Don was appointed as a one-man ‘Location Scotland’ to work closely with Bogner’s art director Hier Richtoven. One evening, by a log fire in Dunrobin Castle, Don would discover Hier Richtoven, was a descendant of the Red Baron flying ace of World War I. (True!)
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Image: Yazz on horseback from the beach scene.
The next day, filming moved on to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Balnagown Estate, where Don was intrigued to see a portrait of Scots patriot, Sir William Wallace, which hangs over an ancient chair (left) said to have been his property.
The seed of an idea for a private collection of important artefacts was sown, which would later come to fruition in the Scottish Museum of Movie Magic.
Image: © Crown Copyright: HES (Scottish National Buildings Record)