Old Masters (1955)

London. L, S of the Coronation Ceremony in 1953. M, S of Queen Elizabeth sitting on a throne from a high angle. Dissolve into a painting of the ceremony it is a painting by Terence Cuneo. Camera pulls back to show the whole painting. M, S of a man wearing a white coat looking at a painted canvas in a workroom full of paintings. He places the canvas into a wooden frame. C, U of him banging in small pieces of wood to hold the canvas in place. He looks at the painting again it is a reproduction of Renoir s On the The art studio featured has developed a new reproduction process to make Old Masters available to all. M, S of a shelf holding three identical reproductions of Renoir painting. M, S of a group of four women over painting the reproductions. M, S and C, U of one of the women artists at work. C, U of her loading her paintbrush from a palette. C, Us of another artist at work. We see the women working on reproductions of The Class by Degas and Portrait of a Child by Rubens. Th