1939 SHOWBIZ / ARTS: Celebrities preview the 171st Exhibition at Royal Academy

Date: 4th May 1939

Location: PICCADILLY LONDON, ENGLAND BURLINGTON HO., ENGLAND

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

SLATE INFORMATION: ACADEMY OPENING DRAWS CELEBRITIES

ENGLAND: London: Piccadilly: Burlington House:

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Exterior shot of Burlington House with cars outside

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Interior shot of Burlington House as Miss Hudson touches up mural 'Procession of the Shipwrights'

Close up A. K. Lawrence (Painter and artist) touching up mural

Wide shot Lawrence working on painting

David Jagger (Portrait painter) standing in gallery smoking cigarette PAN to painting 'Symphony in White'

Close up painting 'Symphony in White'

Close up Dame Laura Knight (Impressionist painter) touching up work

Loris Rey (Sculptor) dusting nude statue 'Fountain Head'

Close up 'Fountain Head' statue PAN to Rey dusting

Eric Gill (Artist) in monk-like robes looking at League of Nations Carving

Shot of League of Nations Carving

Close up Gill PAN to carving

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Cars outside Burlington House

H. G. Wells (Author) arriving at exhibition with wife

Close up Wells

Close up Pauline Baynes (Book Illustrator)

Margot Asquith (Countess of Oxford and Asquith) out of car

Close up Asquith

View of press taking photographs

Anne Chamberlain (Wife of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain) and Valerie Coles

Side shot William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (Motor manufacturer and philanthropist) in bowler hat

Close up Frances Day (American actress)

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GVs people looking at pictures

Shot of 'Queen Mary' portrait, painted by Simon Elwes

Long view painting 'G. Page, minder of taxi-rank' by George Belcher

Long view 'Steve Donoghue going out to Derby' painting by Alfred Munnings

Long view 'Neville Chamberlain' painting by James Gunn

Close up 'Neville Chamberlain' painting

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Back view Lord and Lady Simon of Wythenshawe being photographed

Lord and Lady Simon of Wythenshawe pose on steps of Academy and walk off

Art and Artists; Personalities - Miscellaneous; Exhibitions; Great Britain

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