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 Terrace.“ 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