Curated Video
Italian PM meets Chinese leaders
1. Wide of Italian Premiere Romano Prodi walking to Chinese President Hu Jintao and shaking hands
2. Prodi and Hu shaking hands, smiling
3. Wide of Hu shaking hands with Italian visiting officials
3. Wide interior of meeting room
4....
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Preview to new holocaust museum
1. Wide exterior new Yad Vashem museum
2. Exterior museum
3. Glass roof of museum
4. Pan up interior of museum to glass roof
5. Triangular museum
6. Video screens showing Nazi footage, pull out to people working on museum
7. Technicians...
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Designers inspired by favelas for Spring/Summer collections
1. Pan of the facade of the MAM - Modern Art Museum - where Fashion Rio is being held
2. Wide shot of venue
3. Wide of corridor, camera follows two blonde women
4. Tilt-up of women
5. Various Sta catwalk
6. Wide shot Sta catwalk,...
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YSL's designs and love of Morocco celebrated in the new exhibition
AP Television
Marrakech, Morocco - 27th November 2010
1. Various of a variety of palm trees in the Jardin Majorelle
2. Various of the former studio of Jacques Majorelle now a museum and gallery
3. Various of Betty Catroux, Loulou de...
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How to turn unborn babies into future art lovers
AP Television
St Petersburg, Russia - December 9, 2009
1. Mid of woman listening to guide
2. Close up of woman''s hand on her bump
3. Close up of woman''s face
4. Wide of group of women standing in front of painting
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Newly refurbished rail line will run through a park and buildings
1. Shot looking down on Manhattan's west side with stretches of the High Line, zoom in to view of the High Line
2. View of High Line from above
3. Street level of portion of High Line which has been cut off, zoom out
4. High Line from...
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SPAIN: MADRID: FRANCISCO DE GOYA'S BIRTH COMMEMORATED
Spanish/Nat
Spain has launched a year of commemorations of one of its most celebrated artistic sons, Franciso de Goya, with the opening of an exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of his birth.
King Juan Carlos inaugurated the show in...
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UK: NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SAID TO HOLD REMAINS OF 360 ABORIGINES
English/Nat
A group of archaeologists says that Britain's renowned Natural History Museum - one of the oldest and largest in the world - is holding the remains of up to 360 individual Australian Aborigines.
And they say some of the...
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PERU: MUJICA GALLO FAMILIES TREASURES SHOWN AT MUSEUM OF GOLD
Spanish/Nat
One family's collection has become one of Peru's leading showcases on treasures from the past in Lima's Museum of Gold.
The museum's display of artifacts is the work of the Mujica Gallo family, whose guardian role has kept...
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New exhibition at Mandela museum shows letters to Rosa Parks and Mandela
1. Wide exterior Nelson Mandela Museum
2. Poster at entrance of museum showing photos of Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks with the slogan (English) "Dear Mr Mandela, Dear Mrs Parks"
3. Close-up of poster with photos of Parks and Mandela...
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SOUTH AFRICA: EXCAVATION OF SLAVE CELLAR
English/Nat
South African archaeologists have uncovered the steps leading to the world's only existing Dutch East India slave cellar.
Dating back to 1679, the Slave Lodge housed up to a thousand slaves, many of whom worked as gardeners...
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Porsches belonging to Janis Joplin and Steve McQueen go on show
An exhibition of 22 racing and street cars made by the German automakers, Porsche, are on display at the North Carolina Museum of Art in the US.
"Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed" includes Hollywood actor Steve McQueen's 1958 Speedster...
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MET rooftop installation reaches out to sky
AP Television
New York City, US - 14 May 2012
1. Zoom into Cloudy City sculpture on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
2. Various of up people inside the sculpture looking at Central Park
3. SOUNDBITE...
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Humanoid robots customised by children compete against eachother
London - 4 July 2007
1. Wide of children sitting close to two robots
2. Close of robot and hands
3. Wide of two children holding robot and control
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob Skitmore, Science Museum, Assistant Curator of Information...
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Landmark abstract expressionist art goes on display
1. Exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. Close-up of sign reading (in English) "Abstract Expressionism: The Muriel Newman Collection"
3. Pan of gallery with art on display
4. Zoom out from painting entitled "Number 28, 1950"...
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USA: NEW YORK: NEW ZEALAND MAORI GOES ON HEAD HUNTING EXPEDITION
English/Nat
A New Zealand Maori singer is on a head-hunting expedition to New York City.
Dalvanius Prime is appealing to the American Museum of Natural History to return its collection of 35 preserved and tattooed human heads to their...
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Fragment of Wall in Vatican gardens, memorial coin issued
The Vatican is issuing a special coin to mark next Monday's 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.
A little portion of the wall is held inside the Vatican gardens, a few steps from the house of German Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI...
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Unveiling of Goya painting recovered after theft
February 15, 2007
1. Painting by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya "Children with a cart," being unveiled
2. Various of painting, zoom out to wide
3. Close-up of painting
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lisa Dennison, Director of Guggenheim...
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BELGIUM: ANTWERP: JESUIT COLLEGE FORCED TO SELL MASTERPIECES
Eng/Fr/Dutch/Nat
Today (Monday) a unique auction in Antwerp, Belgium will rock the international art community.
For decades masterpieces of Belgian painters of the 16th and 17th century have been hanging on the walls of a Jesuit...
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Preview of Impressionism and Fashion exhibition
Paris Fashion Week will open up with an exhibit that puts impressionist art down the runway.
The exhibit, called "Impressionism and Fashion," which opens Tuesday at the Musee d'Orsay, explores how the late 19th century Impressionists...
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On November 9, 1989, East Germans started flowing into West Berlin. The opening of a single border crossing led to the opening of others and the eventual fall of the Berlin Wall, which had divided the city for 28 years. (Nov. 7)
SOUNDBITE: (German) Harald Jaeger, former Lt. colonel in charge of the Bornholmerstrasse border crossing on November 9, 1989:
"I tried to get a directive from a superior so I could start letting the GDR citizens through but there was...
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Pieces of six of the Dead Sea scrolls go on display
1. Wide of exhibit
2. Woman looking at pieces of part of the six Dead Sea Scrolls on display
3. Close of woman looking at scroll
4. Close of fragment of scroll
5. Close of labelling on display case, pull out to scroll displayed
6. Close...
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On the trail of the real Che Guevara
++No Slate at Start of Story++
AP Television
Alta Gracia, Cordoba, Argentina - 4th October, 2010
1. Wide of people entering Che Guevara museum
2. Mid of Che statue placed between Argentine and Cuban flags
3. Large of people standing in...
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Jenny Holzer exhibits her extraordinary work in Paris
1. Vs Exterior Pont Neuf projected text by Jenny Holzer
2. SOT Jenny Holzer - "This church is designed to have one thing in the dead center. It used to be one man so I replaced the single man with the single column. There are four...