An interview with a lightning sculptor "ISSY QUICK"
Series
- Series Name
- Around The Town
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 6
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: ‘An interview with a lightning sculptor "ISSY QUICK", in fact he was so quick the camera failed to catch him --- so we just show you some specimens of his work.' Close up of stop motion animation. A lump of clay which becomes a bust of a woman. Fade to a devillish face whose tongue moves about and then becomes two more lumps of clay which form two smaller devils.
- Keywords
- Arts and crafts
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 23 February 1922, p53.
The Bioscope 16 February 1922, p10.
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- Production Co.
- Around the Town Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 53
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How to cite this record
'An interview with a lightning sculptor "ISSY QUICK"', Around The Town Issue No. 116, 16 Feb 1922. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/330055 (Accessed 28 Jun 2025)