| STONE FIGURES Sculptor Elinor Lambert makes artworks from stones | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6003 | |
| Catalog #: | 23629 | |
| Clip Number: | 23629-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 34 | |
| Timecode: | 01:00:29 - 01:02:36 | |
| Location: | Mevagissey, Cornwall | |
| Year Shot: | 1955 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ART: Sculpture LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Cornwall | |
| Description: | STONE FIGURES Sculptor Elinor Lambert makes artworks from stones Mevagissey, Cornwall. Artist Elinor Lambert uses stone weathered by the elements on the Cornish cost to make sculptures, adding other materials to the stone to form figures of people. LS Lambert walking on rocky beach; she picks up rock. CU she turns rock around it is rather odd shaped , dark grey with white lines criss crossing. MS she puts this rock into a basket with other unusual rocks, picks up basket. LS she starts to leave the shore. LS she walks along narrow old street and turns into doorway. She enters her home / studio and sits down; there are small rock statues on tables. CU she works on a stone on which she has made 2 human heads sort of emerging from it; she is gluing other pieces to it. MS the woman gets up and kneels by small table CU on the table she sets a curved rock onto a small flat one; then she takes a clay figure of a woman from the waist up and sets it on the curved rock, which forms the lower part of the body for the sculpture. MS the artist stands by table covered with figures; she is painting one which stands on a stone wheel. CU she paints a glaze over figure of a woman; pan down the figure and to left to show other finished figures. Various close shots of some of the stone figures, shot in a natural setting along the shore - - set among other rocks, with water lapping on them etc Ends w/ CU a row of figures of fishermen leaning on a wall looking away; pan up to 3 real fishermen leaning on wall . | |
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