Is This a Record

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1752
Date Released
31 Dec 1962
Date submitted
22 Nov 1962
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Is This a Record?. DESCRIPTION: An Austrian painter has extended a record even further with the existentialist record. The workshop with black candles, gives me the possibility to meditate under the shelter of dark violet umbrellas. The painter, wearer of dark-coloured skin and white mice. The mad elegance of his picture-world naturally takes possession of his person. SHOTLIST: Key scene. CU record playing. MCU woman and two men past camera. GV big wheel (Vienna’s Ferris Wheel). CU record playing. Man watching candles (2 shots). CU candle sticks. CU eye. CU umbrella. CU record playing. CU ear. CU record playing. CU man listening. CU man - pan to television set. CU record playing. CU ear. CU eye. CU man has a drink. (This was the world’s first existentialist record, and the Ferris Wheel at Prater Park the site of the world premiere. Austrian existentialist painter Helmuth Leherb made the record).
Keywords
Curiosities; Arts and crafts
Locations
Vienna; Austria
Footage sources
Germany
Card file number
85541
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
86
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Is This a Record', British Movietone News Issue No. 1752, 31 Dec 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/24938 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)