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Museum of Moving Image honor for Clint Eastwood
AP Entertainment
New York, New York 1 December 2009
1. Exterior pan, pan Plaza Hotel with holiday decorations to Paris Theatre
2. Medium shot, Clint Eastwood arriving on red carpet
3. Close up, Clint Eastwood
4. Extreme close up and...
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The black speck moving on the Milwaukee Art Museum's giant white wings is actually a painter. Workers are touching up rust spots on the museum's Burke Brise Soleil, designed by internationally known Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. (Oct. 13)
(Nats of sander from high above)
SOUNDBITE (English): Matt Radmacher, owner of Wisconsin Industrial Painters. "Walking out on those wings will be intense but it's not everyday you get to do that."
SOUNDBITE: Kristin Settle, spokeswoman...
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A unique exhibit of more than 300 graffiti works collected over the years by East Village artist Martin Wong opens at the Museum of the City of New York. (Feb. 3)
Spray-painted at night on a Lower East Side handball court, the "Howard the Duck" mural showed the comic book character peeking from behind a trash can with the words: "Graffiti is a art, And if art is a crime, Let God forgive all."
That...
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A new museum of the Berlin Wall will reopen on the 25th anniversary of its fall
After more than 12 years and four million visitors, the Documentation Centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial closed its doors in October 2013.
Now, four day's ahead of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall, it opened again for the...
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Australian delegation meet with exiled Tibetan leader
1. Australian delegation receiving welcome with traditional Tibetan scarves outside the Museum of Tibet
2. Michael Danby (centre), leader of the delegation, with Sarah Hanson-Young (right) looking at exhibit in museum
3. SOUNDBITE...
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10 year old girl's enclyclopaedic knowledge of dinosaurs
Isle of Wight - March 2008
1. Wide of person standing in the distance on a stormy beach
2. Wide of beach
3. Group of fossil hunter gathered on the beach and can be seen in silhouette
4. Close up of dinosaur enthusiast Abigail Plant...
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Museum and Google join forces to get Dead Sea scrolls online
1. Wide exterior of museum hall where scrolls are held
2. Sign at entrance to museum
3. Various of woman in lab showing fractions of scrolls
4. Various of pieces from scroll laid in glass
5. Wide of joint news conference of Israel's...
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US: ENOLA GAY: 53RD ANNIVERSARY OF BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA .
Eng/Nat
As American veterans mark the 53rd anniversary of Pearl Harbour - the event which took the United States into war with Japan - controversy is building over how to commemorate the event that ended the conflict.
As part of next...
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First Lady hosts spouses, museum visit, family photo
1. Various of Indonesia's Kristiani Herawati (in white), Chile's First Lady Luisa Duran de Lagos (in blue)
2. US First Lady Laura Bush walking, shaking hands with Luisa Duran de Lagos
3. Singapore's Ho Ching with Luisa Duran de Lagos
4....
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Preview to major Met exhibition of the works of the fauvist great
1. Exterior of Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. Matisse exhibit sign "The Fabric of Dreams - Matisse, his Art and his Textiles"
3. Exhibition
4. Pan from robes to paintings in which they are featured
5. Painting: "Purple Robe and...
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Holocaust museum official reax to Papal lifting of excommunications
1. Wide tilt down exterior of Jewish Agency for Israel building
2. Wide of session of Jewish Agency global forum against anti-semitism
3. Close-up of screen in presentation
4. Mid of people at session
5. Close-up of notes being...
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ISRAEL: HOLOCAUST DAY REMEMBERED
English/Nat
Israel today (Thursday) marks Holocaust Day - when it remembers the 6 (m) million Jews killed by the Nazis.
The Jewish state is determined to keep the memory of the genocide alive - even recreating a World War II ghetto...
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The first of its kind in Latin America and featuring the second largest collection of malt whiskys in the world, according to its founder, the newly launched Museum of Whisky is causing a stir in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
The first of its kind in Latin America and featuring the second largest collection of malt whiskys in the world, according to its founder, the newly launched Museum of Whisky is causing a stir in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
The...
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First look at major Van Gogh retrospective
1. Wide shot entry hall Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. Van Gogh painting 'Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat' from 1887-88
3. Close up detail self-portrait painting
4. Close up drawing 'Self-Portraits' from 1887
5. Close up detail drawing...
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J. Paul Getty Museum pays record $65.1 million at auction for Edouard Manet painting
The J. Paul Getty Museum was revealed Thursday (6 NOV. 2014) as the buyer that paid a record $65.1 million for Edouard Manet's "Spring," a celebrated portrait of a Parisian actress as an embodiment of the season.
The painting will join...
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Peru's old train station houses new indigenous culture museum
Lima - 14 May 2003
1. Exterior wide shot of new cultural museum
2. Tilt down interior shot of museum
3. Peru's First Lady, Eliane Karp, and giving last minute recommendations for the grand opening
4. Karp posing with artifacts for a...
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Israeli museum unveils what it says is the oldest known Jewish prayer book in the world
An Israeli museum unveiled on Thursday what it believes to be the oldest known Jewish prayer book in the world.
The Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem said the prayer book had been carbon dated by three experts to the year 820 A.D.
The...
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GERMANY: NAZI MUSEUM TO OPEN IN HITLER'S BAVARIAN RETREAT
German/Eng/Nat
Hitler's Bavarian retreat is being turned into Germany's first museum to hold a permanent exhibition about the country's Nazi past.
The Berchtesgaden centre will be opened to the public next year.
But there is concern...
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The former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided an optimistic outlook for the nation's economic future, drawing on inspiration from the 1990's political climate. (May 16)
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the Newseum in Washington, DC as the keynote address for New America's 'Big Ideas' conference.
Clinton spoke about the country's current economic climate as well as providing an...
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Reax to Obama win in Virginia diner, Obama headlines at Newseum in DC
Washington, DC
1. Wide shot Newseum worker replacing newspapers
2. Close-up worker placing newspapers in slot
3. Close-up cover of The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post
4. Pan from United Kingdom sign to cover of The...
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Hadrian exhibition opens in London
London, 21st July 2008
1. Various fragments of Hadrian statue found in Turkey August 2007
2. Wide shot artefacts
3. Set up shot Thorsten Opper, curator of Hadrian exhibition, British museum
4. Close up statue
5. SOUNDBITE (English)...
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USA: ROSWELL UFO INCIDENT 50TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY IS LAUNCHED
Washington, DC, Roswell, New Mexico, July 2, 1997
July 2, Roswell, New Mexico:
1. People arriving at alleged UFO crash site near Roswell.
2. Shot of sign advertising UFO crash site.
3. Close shot of flying saucer painted on sign.
4....
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Discovery of copy of the Mona Lisa by "DaVinci Pupil", briefing
1. Wide exterior of Museo del Prado
2. Various of statue outside Museo del Prado
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Falomir, Director of Italian painting, Museo del Prado:
"Because of the exhibition organised by the Louvre Museum, they asked...
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TinTin to be remade by Spielberg and Jackson
1. Zoom in on Tintin murial fresco
2. Various of Tintin boutique
3. Wide of Tintin books on display
4. Mid of Tintin books
5. Close-up of display
6. Tilt down from Herge pictures to Tintin figurines
7. Exterior of Belvue museum
8. Tilt...