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Messel was brought on to design costumes, props and interiors for Caesar and Cleopatra, a film directed and produced by Gabriel Pascal after the stage play of the same name by George Bernard Shaw. Following in the wake of the Second World War Messel had to be creative with his designs considering the limited materials on offer. Another pressure must surely have been the knowledge that the film would be shot in full technicolour.