ETCHER'S ART

Duration: 30 min

Year Published: 1932

Creator: Harvard Film Service

Format: 16mm

Sound: Silent

Description: Supervised by Henry P. Rossiter, Curator of prints at the Museum of fine arts, Boston. At the request of the Museum of Fine Arts, the widely-known artist Frank W. Benson lent his cooperation for this production. A brief historical and explanatory résumé at the opening of the film displays etchings by various masters, past and present, reproduced from original prints in the Museum. The artist tracing a pencil sketch by transferring a pencil sketch by pressure to the coated and smoked surface of a copper plate. When, guided by the faintly impressed lines, Mr. Benson's delicate needle cuts through the coating, thus exposing the copper, the needle draws the drawing. When the hundreds of lines which compose an etching are all exposed, the artist floods his plate with acid and biting becomes the printing process.

Complete Record: Dewey number: 767 Audience level: el-jh-sh-c Format/cost: 16-si-$50; rent $2 Distributors / rental: Bell & Howell Company $50; rent $3; Boston University $2; College Film Center; Ohio Department of Education; State Film Library, Department of Education, Texas loan; Visual Education Service, Inc $2

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946