World Famous in Wax

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1722
Date Released
4 Jun 1962
Date submitted
16 May 1962
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Britain’s Highest
  2. 2Giants of Steel
  3. 3World Famous in Wax
  4. 4Eichmann - Last Chapter
  5. 5Water is Wet!
  6. 6Tea Break!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Famous in Wax. DESCRIPTION: Anyone who’s been fortunate enough to visit Hong Kong, will tell you that it’s a city of many worlds. The world of Suzie Wong, for instance. This life-like model of Nancy Kwan is a clue to a rather unusual occupation we discovered there recently: Jack Chen is the artist who creates these figures in wax. He uses photographs of the famous as a guide. Here, he is working on the head of Al Jolson, the first star of the talkies, destined for the Movieland Wax Museum in California. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Hong Kong. Pan up Nancy Kwan (model) same. Jack Chen making model. Jack Chen puts plaster of paris on. Zoom in pouring wax in model head. Pictures. Men take off plaster of paris. Fixing hair on. Fixing eyes in. Man puts head on body.
Keywords
Arts and crafts
Locations
Hong Kong
Footage sources
Shipment
Card file number
84384
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
120
Story extras:
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