Thing of Beauty

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The restoration of the interior of Parliament House, Melbourne is a time-consuming and delicate process-making replicas and replacing the Victorian baroque moulded plaster decorations, applying gold-leaf less than a thousandth of an inch thick, retouching the highlights of the mouldings and repainting the walls and surrounds with the original sky-blue - but the result is both eccentric and splendid

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Credits

producer

John Fife

editor

Nigel Longman

Duration

00:11:00:00

Production places
Unknown

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

012499

Language

English

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - presentation

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI External Digital Access Copy

U-Matic (low band); Access Print (Section 1)

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