| THE MAKER OF MASKS Mr J S Melvin makes masks for decoration - good 1930s designs. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7252 |
| Catalog #: | 506006 | |
| Clip Number: | 506006-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | PT 260 | |
| Timecode: | 01:48:36 - 01:50:27 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1935 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ART: Drawing ART: Sculpture LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England | |
| Description: | THE MAKER OF MASKS Mr J S Melvin makes masks for decoration - good 1930s designs. Various shots of mask-maker Mr J S Melvin sketching a woman in Elizabethan costume. He then makes a clay model of the mask on an easel, still using the woman as a basic model. She watches Melvin make a flexible jelly cast from the basic design, then plaster is poured into the jelly mould. To the dried plaster mask, Melvin adds huge paper eyelashes and paints on make-up. C/U of the finished mask and another similar design. Melvin holds another version (all are presumably taken from the same basic design). Final shot is of the woman laughing. | |
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