Postage Helps Painter
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Postage Helps Painter. DESCRIPTION: Signor Albergamo of Rome uses old postage stamps to create reproductions of famous works of art. The reproductions are works of art in themselves - each one a mosaic of tiny scraps of paper, every colour carefully matched to the original. It takes around three months, and many thousands of stamps to complete a picture. SHOTLIST: CU Guiseppe Albergamo inspecting stamps. MS same cutting stamps. CU same. CU of him sticking stamps onto picture. CU of Guiseppe. CU picture. MS picture being hung. CUs picture of late Pope John and picture of vase of flowers. Other CUs of the composition of picture and one of a wooden head.
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts
- Locations
- Italy; Rome
- Footage sources
- France
- Card file number
- 89015
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 75
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