Painting With Plasticine (1958)

Bath, Somerset. M/S of 80 year old Miss Olive Harbutt sat in a room painting at an easel, there are many pictures on the walls behind her. M/S over her shoulder, she is working on a picture. M/S of different coloured rolls of plasticine. Her hand picks up a green bit and pulls a piece off. M/S of her profile as she works on the picture. M/S of her picture, which is a Swiss scene of a house in front of a mountain, she is adding bits of plasticine and using a tool to smooth it down. C/U of her face. M/S of Olive moving the Swiss scene behind another one on the easel, the painting now in the foreground is called ’Rural Cottage’. The narrator says she is the earliest pioneer of this form of art and her father, William Harbutt, invented plasticine as a material for modelling in 1895. C/U of ’Rural Cottage’ C/U of her face studying the painting. L/S of the room, Olive’s sister Enid walks into the shot and looks at the picture. Enid walks across the room and picks up a picture of three swans on a