Metal Painter 1960

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High angle M/S of artist Stephan Knapp in his studio in Sandhill, Surrey with his assistant; there are some huge paintings on the wall behind them and hundreds of pots of paint on a table before them. M/Ss and C/Us as SK starts to paint on a large sheet of metal copying from an outline drawing in his...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
2809
Sort Number:
CP 292
Time in/Out:
01:43:50:00 / 01:46:51:00
Canister:
CP 292
Film ID:
107.29
Issue Date:
01/07/1960

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