Learning on ScreenWax Miniatures - A Restored Art
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- Pathe Intertitles - "In the wax miniatures are combined the virtues of two arts --- the relief of sculpture and the colour of painting. It is the ideal medium for perpetuating a likeness ---"
"In the Eighteenth Century many artists excelled at making wax miniatures, but in the two hundred years that followed it became a lost art. Now, it lives once more ---"
"The subject is roughly sketched out in silhouette -"
"To obtain the colours, heated wax is mixed with pigment in powder form ..."
"A tint exactly matching the subject’s flesh-tone is used for the face -"
"Under the artist’s skilful touch, the portrait becomes almost a living thing --"
"A perfect likeness!" - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts
- Written sources
- J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p15.
Pathe Eve 170-210 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 340
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