Wedgewood Exhibition
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wedgewood Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: At London’s Science Museum, an Exhibition entitled Arts and Science United, for such were the aims of Josiah Wedgewood. On show are some of the finest examples of Wedgewood’s pottery and a display of the Potter’s art. SHOTLIST: MCU wheel turning. CU ditto. MS wheel turning and Elwyn James (Wedgewood’s Chief Designer) moulding clay. Various ditto same. CU photographic mural of Josiah Wedgewood statue. CU ditto. 1st day vase that was thrown by Wedgewood himself on the opening of his Etruria factory. MS ditto. CU drawing of the Etruria factory. CU agate and granite ware vases. CU caneware bamboo teapot. Zoom out Britannia statue made to commemorate naval victories over Napoleon. CU Wedgewood reproduction of the Portland Vase. CU Jasperware Plaque ‘The Dancing Hours’. MS Wedgewood cameos. CU ditto. CU portrait Josiah Wedgewood. CU vase presented to British Museum said by Wedgewood ‘to be my finest work ever’. MS pottery turning at wheel. CU potter. CU potter completes jug on wheel.
- Keywords
- Exhibitions and shows
- Locations
- London
- Card file number
- 78/48
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 149
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