International exchange of CAP (Civil Air Patrol) cadets in Washington D.C., United States. A cornerstone with a sign that reads 'National Gallery of Art'. Several foreign and United States cadets get off a bus and enter the National Gallery of Art building (Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565). Cadets pick up pamphlets. They look at a fountain and a cadet dip his hands in the water. The cadets look at paintings and statues. An arm insignia on a cadet's uniform reads 'Brazil'. Foreign CAP officers talk outside the gallery. The cadets look at the paintings and other works of art. They move out of the art gallery and move towards the buses.
Spectators puzzled by a modern art display in Spain. The spectators watch a rotating modern art painting. A man rotates a frame and places it on a wall. Another man takes off his spectacles and looks at the display of modern art paintings. A woman touches and spins an art piece. A sculpture placed on a table. Two men look at a painting and it seems to disappear when seen from different angles.
Robert G Storey addresses the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. He talks about the vast quantity of art objects, paintings, scuplutres, and stolen artwork confiscated by the German Nazis and presents the 39 volumes list of the seized art. Judges examine catalogues. Justice Robert Falco. Storey says that if all stolen art objects seized by the Nazis were catalogued they would fill 350 to 400 volumes.
At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.
Computer screen showing animation of a silhouette of a man running. Narrator states that the first such image was generated at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey in the early 1960s. More views of the so called "Olympic Runner" graphic design generated by the Bell Laboratories newest digital computer. Colors like pink, blue and red are used in the early, historic computer art and animation technology. Men seated in a control room, interacting with the digital computer and other animation and recording hardware. Views of computer monitor screens and discussion by narrator about various visual forms created by computers. Various computer generated images are shown on the screen. Engineer stands in front of video tape machine where the images are being recorded. More computer and animation hardware is shown including an Animation Aid. Narrator describes process of photographing analog computer art work onto motion picture film and then enhancing it with color choices. Engineer is seen operating camera, and then a close up view of motion picture film running on machines and on reels. Animation and color consultant in discussion as they stand over some frames of the film that they have isolated. Sample work of early computer artists is shown, with moving animated art seen on screen, combining color and motion in new ways that were not possible before the digital computer. Another view of the video tape machine operating. Narrator discusses use of the computer also in development of computer generated music that accompanies the visual images. Animated clock is seen. Different kinds of animations are seen.
Masters art pageant in Washington DC. Exhibits of the masters art. A woman puts on makeup on the contestants. They perform their act. A woman puts on make up of Miss liberty. She performs as the Statue of Liberty. A woman speaks about college of arts and museum. A contestant is interviewed.
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