Absorbing the Damage
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Absorbing the Damage. DESCRIPTION: A Scottish paper mill features in the International help which is being directed to aid the victims of the Italian floods. Blotting paper is sent to Florence to dry out the rare books and manuscripts the precious heritage of centuries. SHOTLIST: MS man clearing flood damage near Ponte Vecchio, in Florence. GV river passes Ponte Vecchio. MS shops damaged by floods. GV pan Ponte Vecchio. Pan down Uffitzi, gallery. LAS Church of Santa Croce. GV ditto. GV interior ditto. Pan down tapestry damaged by floods. MS ditto. MLS damaged pictures on table. CU ditto. MS people repair damaged pictures. CU pan ditto. MS pan ditto. MS rolls of blotting paper onto machine at Linwood, Glasgow. LS ditto. MS paper through machine. Top shot paper cut into squares on machine. MS blotting paper sheets off machine. MS women check blotting paper. MS men pack blotting paper. CU labels for ‘Florence’ on package. Pan people restoring old books. MS man puts blotting paper between pages of book. CU ditto. CU pages of book separated. MS mud scraped from painting. CU ditto. CU page of rare book turned. CU drawing on page of book. MCU mud tipped from between pages of book.
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts; Industry and manufacture
- Locations
- Scotland; Italy
- Footage sources
- France
Templar Films
- Card file number
- 91786A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 177
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