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After six months he had saved some money obtained a border pass into Germany

After six months he had saved some money, obtained a border pass into Germany and bought a rail ticket to Berlin.It was mid March 1920 and his arrival coincided with the first day of the Kapp Putsch Lorant took the next train to Vienna. Lorant’s teenage years were set against a background of political extremes and unrest, which had a profound effect on him. In 1919, aged 18, he graduated from the Academy of Economics and left Budapest, not prepared to live under the Fascist dictatorship of Admiral Horthy.Without a visa to enter Germany he was caught on the Czechoslovakian border town of Bodenbach on the Elbe. As editor Lorant had complete control of the creative process, from balanced choice of subject matter to a total integration of text and illustration.He was born Lrnt Istvn in Budapest in 1901, and came from a well-to- do middle class family. His father, as a young man, worked in newspapers and later became manager of Erdelyi, the Budapest photographic studio used by the royal family and the upper classes. He also had an acute political awareness of developments within a Europe in turmoil.

Picture Post came out on the side of humanity, on the side of decency, on the side of common sense. Within two years Lorant brought its circulation to 1.7 million, with an estimated readership of half the adult population of Britain.His success was due to his gift for recognising the value of pictures and presenting them in a simple and logical manner. He expressed ideas initially as pictures on the silent screen and then as pictures on the page. Picture Post, which he created, was one of the design icons of the century.
Before the first issue on 1 October 1938, a number of other pictorial publications, like Illustrated London News, the Sphere, the Tatler, the Sketch, and the Bystander were already on the news-stands, all catering to the upper classes Picture Post appealed to the common man. “We’d only need one million people willing to subscribe to a Brookside on-line to be able to fund the production, produce the programme and deliver it to them direct. From a creative point of view, that would certainly be more rewarding than fighting suits the other side of the country.” The question is, would fans be willing to pay? All of which may seem a far cry from the early days of the soap with a social conscience, but there is nothing wrong with that in Redmond’s book.

“I’m no dreamer with a great cultural vision, just someone with an overriding sense of reality,” he says “I’m cursed with the gene of pragmatism.”. Istvn Lrnt (Stefan Lorant), film maker, editor and writer: born Budapest 22 February 1901; married three times (two sons, one daughter, and one son deceased); died Rochester, Minnesota 14 November 1997

Stefan Lorant was the “godfather” of photo-journalism. By their good attempt to protect kids, they are squeezing out anything remotely challenging from the prime-time schedule.” Which brings us back to Brookside, the video It is more than a spin-off to boost his pension, you see. It’s a way of breaking conventions – of testing the water for future creative opportunities thrown up by digital media.”Eventually, people like me will be talking to on-line distributors about making movies, even soaps,” Redmond believes.