Theatre Masks
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- Pathe synopsis: If you’re fed up with the face you’ve got, all you’ve got to do is to go out and change it for another. So let’s visit the place, in the heart of London’s Theatreland, where they make these alarmingly life-like rubber masks. In this strange fairytale setting behing the scenes in Show Business, two men are creating masks and costumes that will give pleasure to thousands...a tribute to their ingenuity.
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts; Fashion and costume; Performing arts
- Locations
- London; England; Covent Garden
- Written sources
- Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards Used for synopsis
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Peter West
- Length of story (in feet)
- 190
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How to cite this record
'Theatre Masks', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 085, 13 Aug 1956. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/120248 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)