Future for the Past

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Caroline and Sheldon Keck

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Demonstrates the process of cleaning and restoring an old painting. Shows the step-by-step procedure for examining a painting, making records for it, and placing it on a stretcher in the canvas and to apply the polyvinylacetate for protection. Shows also the intermediate order to vacuum and reline it and to remove the old varnish. Illustrates how to retouch processes.