Village of Peace

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

685

Date Released

8 Feb 1968

Date recorded

19 Nov 1967

Length of issue (in feet)

675

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Guide Dog for a Dog
2. 2Hospital for Old Masters
3. 3Village of Peace

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: The ‘patients’ in the ‘hospital’ at London’s National Gallery are sometimes worth millions - and first aid becomes a major operation. In for treatment are ailing paintings, treasures to be restored. Holes are filled in with putty, cracks ironed out with the restorer’s mini version of a housewife’s iron. One painting took 16 years to restore and there’s a lot of detailed, painstaking work to be done to Titian’s two million pound masterpiece "Bacchus and Ariadne".

Keywords

Social conditions

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

288

Story extras:

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