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PAINTING A TRUE FRESCO

The American artist, Henry Varnum Poor, demonstrates the processes involved in fresco painting—the conception of the idea, the preliminary sketches, preparation of the walls, the completion of the full-size drawings, and the final transfer of the sketches, plaster, and color to the walls. Kodachrome

Registration MP3063 No renewal found

Term began
1952-12-01
Claimant
The Pennsylvania State College
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1981 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 47110–47120.

Summary: The American artist, Henry 
Varnum Poor, demonstrates the processes 
involved in fresco painting—the conception 
of the idea, the preliminary sketches, prep- 
aration of the walls, the completion of the 
full-size drawings, and the final transfer 
of the sketches, plaster, and color to the 
walls. Kodachrome. 

© The Pennsylvania State College; 1Dec52; 
MP3063. 

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