| INN SIGNS Artist Michael Farrar-Bell paints pub signs in his garden | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6120 |
| Catalog #: | 503697 | |
| Clip Number: | 503697-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 73 | |
| Timecode: | 01:09:19 - 01:11:15 | |
| Location: | Hadenham, Oxfordshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ART: Painting LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Oxfordshire OCCUPATIONS: Artist OCCUPATIONS: Metalsmith (Blacksmith, etc) SIGNS: Misc | |
| Description: | Use catalog# 144768 for audio Tape A INN SIGNS Artist Michael Farrar-Bell paints pub signs in his garden. Artist Michael Farrar-Bell of Hadenham, Oxfordshire specializes in painting traditional British inn signs, with a picture symbolizing the name of the inn. Hadenham, Oxfordshire. MCUs of various different signs. First one shows the characters from the rhyme "Heigh Diddle Diddle, the Cat & the Fiddle" etc., then a Swan, a big Bell. MLS Michael Farrar-Bell stands at an easel outdoors, painting sign Princess of Wales; other signs leaning against house in BG. MS/CU Michael Farrar-Bell CU He then looks up to the original picture of the Princess of Wales which he is copying. CU Picture he is painting. Hand with brush. MS Picture he is painting - he leaves easel and goes over to the table. CU Open book with period figures on open page - which he is looking at. CU backs of some old books on heraldry, etc MLS 2 men carry away one of his signs (for "The Hare"). MS CU sign depicting former prime minister. MLS /MS small girl dusting off one of the signs propped against the house. CU sign. MS older daughter varnishing a sign. CU her hand with brush putting on varnish. MS Blacksmith Ralph Timms who makes the iron fixtures and decorations for the signboards, shown bending iron trellis work into shape & CU MS Timms takes trellis from off shaper hammers it into shape and holds it up for examination. CU Timms examining trellis. MCU Inn sign showing a horse hanging over a pub showing the trellis work. MUC another sign, with knights, and more fancy trellis work. and finally a sign for the "Spread Eagle" in a square frame surrounded by iron curlicues. | |
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