| Description | Shop selling artists’ materials. Woman looking at greetings cards. VO on the increasing popularity of primitive art, especially among women who are the greates buyers of greetings cards. Caption: "Julian Royle, Greetings Card Publisher."
Royle claims that the first sender of a Christmas card was the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum around 1845-1850. Printing presses. Royle talking about the growth of greetings cards dissemination, particularly among the Anglo-Saxon nations. Cards being packeted. Caption: "Hannah Mitchell, Lecturer in Cultural Studies."
Mitchell taking a class and saying that Benjamin believes that through mechanical reproduction, it’s "possible for art to emancipate itself from what he sees as its parasitic involvement with ritual". Painting of children in playground. Caption: "George Tate, Former Headmaster." Tate remembers Pepper as not being very bright, and didn’t shine at painting. He talks about the death of Reginald’s father. Scrap metal yard; manager’s VO says they’ve never had any fatalities. "To all units: It has come to my attention that considerable film stock has already been used up on the Pepper project… I must once again remind the Godard unit that this film is about Reginald Pepper and his painting." Caption: "Guy Brett, Art Critic." Brett talking about historic used of the term "primitive", and says that people like Picasso who took up African art lacked understanding of the cultures from which it came. Falsely adopting a naïve style plays to the taste of well-off middle class people. Brett suggests the film-makers could think about situations which are the opposite of commonplace. Shows some "Chilean patchwork" of everyday events. |
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