Glass Painting

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

670

Date Released

26 Oct 1967

Date recorded

19 Sep 1967

Length of issue (in feet)

784

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Glass Painting
2. 2Orchid Nursery
3. 3Gpo Riggers

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: You usually put glass in windows, but a small group of London artists are changing all that - they’re painting it! Glass painting was a sort of 16th century pop art in Britain, and it’s coming back into fashion. Take an old engraved print, stick it on to glass, and paint the back, and you get a life-like prismatic effect. But if you want a picture of delicate floral beauty ...

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

207

Story extras:

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