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1971 - Color, USA Art: Government Documentary - The Five Pt 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221758-01-P1

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1971,1970s

Country: France,USA

Location: California,Los Angeles,New York City,NYC,Paris

TC Begins: 22:00:00

TC Ends: 22:17:24

Duration: 00:17:24

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Animated line-drawing caricatures of Barbara Chase-Riboud, Romare Bearden, Richard Hunt, Charles White, Betty Blayton. 22:00:19 Title. 22:00:23 Pieces of sculpture by Chase-Riboud in museum gallery. 22:00:38 View of Paris traffic from center of round-about. 22:00:48 Low angle / LA in car w/ Black sculptor Chase-Riboud driving; view alongside car; traffic. 22:01:05 Riboud leaving Nickel Chrome talking to owner & carrying polish sand casting w/ VO describing. CU of piece & working in studio at drawing board intercut w/ shots of handling sculptures, wax & heating to shape. Pieces of combined sculpture & fabric/textile. Talks about right to work w/ racially related culture. 22:03:42 CU furnace, Frenchmen pouring aluminum into sandcasting as Riboud watches. 22:04:28 Sign: Ecole Active Bilingue - Ecole Internationale de Paris, Annexe Suffren. Picking up two children & getting into station wagon. 22:04:57 In studio looking at finished large casting; looking a pieces - talks of what works & older pieces. 22:06:12 CU of Charles White’s prints of African-Americans, stylized. White playing w/ his children on patio w/ VO talking about John Brown. Children run up hill & view down to canyon homes & Charles White. 22:07:13 CU Worn gravestone of Brown’s son, children arrive & crawl on stone; CU child & drawing w/ White working on it in his studio. CUs & MSs of work. w/ VO talking about his images.\ 22:08:26 White walking in park. CU sign: Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County. Talking in front of class sitting around him. White discusses his feelings about teaching as a source of inspiration. SOF. Talking about racial attitudes. 22:11:48 Abstract paintings aka spiritual abstractions of Betty Blayton, CUs of colors & circle forms; Blayton looking at them. 22:12:34 Walking past large abstract murals on New York City walls behind parking lot & past Tony Rosenthal’s sculpture Alamo aka The Cube in Astor Place. Walking in crowd on Fifth Avenue; walking into Lincoln Center plaza intercut w/ working w/ students in Harlem Art School. 22:13:17 Boy walking along Harlem street seen thru woven wire fence; girl walking past boys on bicycles; fire truck along sidewalk, boy past. CU sign: Harlem Schoolf the Arts presents The Children’s Art Carnival, created & sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art. Kids out & in door below. 22:13:58 CU Black hands working on clay sculpture w/ tool. Instructor & children. VO explaining what teaching art does. Betty Blayton talking to children working on watercolors. CUs. 22;15:02 Blayton working on round piece, sketching w/ watercolor; adheres tissue to surface & paints over. VO explaining process. Continued... Artists; Processes; Ethnic Understanding; Artistic Process; Teachers; Teaching; Learning; 1960s; 1970s; African-Americans; Street Scenes; Daily Life; Race Heritage; Chase-Riboud (26Jun39 - ); WPA artist Charles White (02Apr18 - 03Oct79); Betty Blayton (10Jul37 - NOTE: Any continuous 15 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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