Psychic Art (1930)

No title. M/S of a man sitting at an easel. He has paint brushes by his side. He begins to draw. C/U of the picture he is drawing. It is a drawing of a mythical beast bathed in light emerging from a cloud. Camera dissolve into other strange drawings incorporating skulls and flames. The artist is Mr Fiddes Watt, he turns images from these “extraordinary dream pictures“ into sculptures. M/S of Mr Watt in his studio working on a small sculpture. C/U of his hands as he moulds a creature’s tail. C/U of the artist. Various shots of him at work on his bizarre creations. C/U of one of the beasts. “Perhaps, buried within us all, there rests some primitive element remembering the monsters of ages ago and conjuring up these nightmarish figures - “ Unusual shot with a sculpture in the foreground and the artist standing in the background. Was an item in Pathe Pictorial issue number 630. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL