| Art Restoration: Gigantic Task Begins In Florence | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1754 |
| Catalog #: | 425560 | |
| Clip Number: | 425560-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-096-01 | |
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| Location: | Florence, Italy | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/TEENAGERS: Working ART: Restoration/Cleaning CROWDS: Misc. DISASTERS: Floods LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Italy, Florence | |
| Description: | The City of Florence, art museum to the world, begins the gigantic task of cleaning and restoring its priceless art, damaged by the recent floods. Rare books and paintings are painstakingly dried and treated. Experts say it's a job that'll take twenty years. Establishing shot - A dug up city street in Florence, Italy. MS - This looks like it could be one of Florence's museums where the interior of the building was just swamped with mud and water, volunteers came from all over Italy and abroad to help clean up the birthplace of the Renaissance. Camera panning - Many books and art work are damaged caused by the devastating flood in Florence. High Angle Shot - Volunteers systematically taking out the great works and getting them ready for the restoration. MS - A volunteer ankle deep in mud. MS - Piles and piles of books, papers soaked with water and mud. CU - The restoration of books and art work. MS - Art work laid out to dry. High Angle Shot - Two volunteers painfully removing caked on mud from some art relic. CU - Two volunteers removing mud from a statue of the Madonna with Child. CU - An artist cleaning up and saving one of the many art treasures from Florence. High Angle Shot - One of the many gardens of Florence packed knee deep in mud. MS - One of the many churches getting attended to by some of the many volunteers, It will take weeks and weeks to clear the area of all that mud. MS - A burial site of a Bishop getting washed and cleaned. High Angle Shot - Muddy trucks, and earth movers packed on the muddy street's of Florence, Italy. It rained for 18 hours non-stop, causing unprecedented artistic, economic and human disasters. The River Arno burst its banks and flooded the city and buildings claiming 29 lives. | |
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