Old Master Surgeon (1960)
M, S of old master restorer Mr Aczel sitting at a table in a laboratory in Brook Street, London; he is wearing a white coat and is surrounded by lots of bottles, potions and pieces of equipment; he takes the lid off a bottle and pours some dark liquid from it into a small beaker. M, Ss as his assistant, Sidney Bennett enters shot carrying a painting that he puts on the table; Mr A puts it in front of him and smears some cleaning fluid on it, then starts to clean it with some cotton wool. C, U as he examines it through a small magnifying instrument. M, Ss and C, Us as he cleans the painting with a small cottonbud while looking through a magnifying glass; dipping the bud into a glass of cleaning fluid. C, Us of the painting as a face is revealed; Mr A as he cleans. High angle M, S looking down on the cleaned painting showing a portrait of a woman with long tumbling hair and a white top; the painting is removed from the table and another is put in its place. M, Ss and C, Us of Mr A looking closely at the pictu
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