| Gallery of Children | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 11532 |
| Catalog #: | 492988 | |
| Clip Number: | 492988-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 31-0130 | |
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| Location: | The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. | |
| Year Shot: | 1969 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ART: Painting | |
| Description: | This program is designed to influence children's appreciation for fine art. Hosted and narrated by Joan Kennedy, the program follows various groups of school children throughout the National Gallery of Art as they stroll up to different paintings and look at them. The manner in which they do this is, at times, clearly staged and mechanical. All works have the same premise for their composition; depict children in their daily lives. Kennedy has geared this program towards the elementary level. 13:17:11 Panning from a shot of the Capitol Building, footage shows groups of elementary age children moving down the stairs of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. 13:18:03 Three elementary aged children observing an oil painting. Their backs are straight, hair neatly combed. After looking at the first painting, they turn, and proceed mechanically to the next, and then the next. Each time they arrive with their hands folded and their heads cocked upright. One boy points as if to make a comment about the composition or use of paint. 13:18:31 opening Title: "Gallery of Children" 13:18:50 Family looking at painting. 13:19:07 A museum docent explains Edouard Manet's, "The Old Musician," to a group of school children. Children listen attentively. The docent asks the children to describe what they see. A child in suit and tie responds. 13:19:54 A kid strolling through a wing of the museum looking at paintings 13:23:20 Paintings by Picasso and Monet. 13:23:47 Statue, fountain, children smelling fowers 13:24:49 italian painting including works by Tissot. Also work by Lukas Cranach the Elder. 13:27:52 Children looking at portrait of young King Henry the Sixth. 13:29:30 Children wandering through the galleries, paintings by Van Dyck 13:31:11 Paintings by Peter De Hooch, and Rembrandt. 13:33:09 Children are shown in a gift shop looking at posters of their favorite paintings when a counter clerk approaches them. They buy a poster. 13:39:40 The same 3 children seen at the beginning of the program, looking at a Renoir - with more interest than before. 13:41:03 Children observe Mary Cassat's, "The Boating Party", and paintings by Winslow Homer and Robert Henri. 13:44:53 credits | |
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