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Art Find by X-Ray

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1753A
Date Released
10 Jan 1963
Date submitted
7 Jan 1963
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Camping in Comfort
  2. 2Art Find by X-Ray
  3. 3Who’s the Dummy?
  4. 4Possum Helps the Paralysed

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Art Find By X-Ray. DESCRIPTION: X-Rays show that underneath the painting of Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons, by the German artist, Hans Holbein the Younger, are the original sketches by the master. The painting is one of two on the same theme. One is owned by the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons and the other by the Royal College of Surgeons. The discovery was made by a member of the College, who took 84 pictures with ordinary dental X-Ray apparatus. News of another art controversy comes from the South of France, where a dealer claims that Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, currently on show in Washington, is a fake. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV gallery. MS head of painting (Hans Holbein The Younger’s Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons). CU pan same. MCU man looking through magnifying glass. CU magnifying glass over painting. CU head. CU head. CU head of old master (2 shots). CU head of original painting. MS original. CU details of original (3 shots). MCU Henry VIII, zoom out from Henry VIII. CU pan up Henry VIII cartoon. MS cartoon. MS men look at Mona Lisa. CU Mona Lisa painting (3 shots).
Keywords
Arts and crafts; Science and technology; Crime
Locations
France; London
Footage sources
France
Card file number
85789
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Ronald E. Collins
Length of story (in feet)
159
Story extras:

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