| Description | Exterior Beaubourg, street entertainers, passers-by, details of the building, etc.
Denis Postle explains the structure of the programme, a series of shorter pieces, each presenting the arts centre from a different point of view, which they believe amounts to an "official" view of the Beaubourg’s aims and priorities.
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The outside of the Beaubourg; architects’drawing. Commentary gives statistics for visitors, and asks why they come. Jikke Mura, one of the National Centre for Art and Culture’s official guides, gives brief information on the building. Visitors. Commentary says that Georges Pompidou wanted it to raise "the whole cultural level of the nation". Mura going towards the Centre for Industrial Creation, pointing out such features as the wall illustrating 20th century industrial advances. Commentary says that this section aims to improve the standard of French industrial design as well as to educate the consumer. Mura continues the tour, and talks about the piazza as it’s seen from one of the escalators. People in the piazza. Mura enters the Library and explains how it works – a collection of books, slides and films and television, etc. – which can be accessed without assistance. Commentary gives more information, pointing out that Library users automatically come into contact with the permanent and changing exhibitions of painting and sculpture. Mura goes to the Museum. Shots of the building’s architectural features; commentary says the building "points to the day when art will become a integral part of everyday life". Some of the Museum’s collection of paintings, including Francis Bacon’s triptych, Three Figures in a Room (1964). Mura points out the entrance to the Ircam – the Institute for Acoustical and Musical Research. Architectural details of the acoustically tuneable performance space. Mura going towards the "common space", where exhibitions bring together "the plastic arts and industrial design". The current exhibition is "Paris-Berlin; Rapports et Contrastes France-Allemagne 1900-1933". Exterior of the building which commentary says was designed to prevent the public being cut off from the arts by "attitudes of passive admiration". Mura points out features of the view from the top of the building. Exterior features. Denis Postle talking about the construction of the building. |
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