Artomation

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1570

Date Released

6 Jul 1959

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A New Way of Painting. DESCRIPTION: These pictures show an artomatic machine, the brain-child of a French genius: the potable model in action. There’s a model for painting Chinese abstracts, too. No end to the possibilities of this invention. And here is the inventor, demonstrating how paintings go on painting themselves even during lunch-hour. SHOTLIST: MS girl operates invention (key). MS inventor demonstrates painting machine. Closer same. Another angle same. FS same hands drawing to boy. CU table model - invention working - drawing lines etc. MS same. Closer same. CU same pan to drawing. MS same with inventor. MS machine drawing while artists eat. CU same. MS artists eating - inventor leaves table. CU inventor takes down completed picture. MS same signs name.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Curiosities; Arts and crafts; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

France; Paris

Footage sources

France

Card file number

77549

Credits:

Commentator: Jeffrey K. Shearley

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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