Painting Reproductions

Series

Series Name
Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.
427
Date Released
4 Mar 1963
Date recorded
25 Jan 1963
Length of issue (in feet)
696
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 2
Summary
Pathe synopsis: It’s breakfast time in one of England’s stateliest homes. The Duke of Bedford, facing a golden muffin dish, drinks his coffee in a room full of Canaletto paintings, each worth many thousands of pounds. And there on the wall are two identical ones. Somebody’s faked a masterpiece. Faked - or reproduced it. We move to a studio where copies of the world’s greatest paintings are reproduced and then overpainted in such a way that the authorities at the Lourve Museum insist that the reproductions are stamped to distinguish them from the originals. You simply can’t tell the original from the real thing [Fiehl technique].
Keywords
Arts and crafts
Locations
London; England; Bedfordshire; Woburn Abbey
Written sources
British Pathe online database   Used for synopsis
Credits:
Commentator
Tim Brinton
Length of story (in feet)
350
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Painting Reproductions', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 427, 4 Mar 1963. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121349 (Accessed 21 Jul 2025)