" PAINT " 1967 SHELL OIL COMPANY HISTORY OF PAINT & PAINTING EDUCATIONAL FILM MD74732
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This movie "Paint" from the Shell Film Unit traces the history of paint from ancient hands and ancient tools onto cave walls and into modern industrial paints used for anti-corrosive and durability purposes. The film opens with cave art; sticks, bones and minerals used for technique and pigment. Bituminous paint is looked to as an early discovery by Mesopotamians for its strength and durability. The story grows through generations and cultures, from Egyptian art through the religious paintings of the Renaissance Era displaying how innovations from various cultures influenced art and the paint industry. The Shell Film Unit was formed in 1934 and would later become one of the most highly regarded documentary units based within a private company. The unit was a part of Britain's documentary movement providing a wide range of topics including technical studies related to shell activities as well as general education films for the public. During WW2, Shell created films for Britain's Ministry of Information.
The film opens with images of a painter coating a wall by hand, to be complete in 30 days (1:16). This is compared to modern spray painting methods (1:24). A full car body takes a dip in a candy apple red (1:47) full body bath. Stalactites drop from cave ceilings (2:14). Cave paintings run over walls (2:31). The history of cave art dates back to over 40,000 years ago. Ochre-like mixtures likely used for paint were discovered by archeologists from 100,000 years ago. Fat animals in spindly black outline detail ancient life (2:40). A bit of charred wood cuts a black oxen head into the wall as Shell begins to explain the history of paint materials (2:52). Hot animal fat binds earth colors (3:04). Leg bones and hollow stones (3:10) were used as pestle and mortar. Red is used like blood scrapes on the cows neck from a bruised steak brush (3:23). Bituminous paint (3:38) has dual functionality as pigment and a binding medium (3:50). Layers of paint are stuck onto woven reeds (3:56). Egyptians are often sighted as early influencers of paint technology. Pharaohs employed artists to decorate their palace temples and tombs (4:06). Egyptian women bend over instruments (4:18); story figures on house hold items (4:27). These would be buried with the dead (4:30). Clay pots and reed brushes were used for mixing paints (4:41). Colorful minerals such as malachite (4:55) and hematite were popular. Gums and honey were used to bind pigments (5:32). Greek and Roman (6:03) innovations sprang from a focus on painting solid forms. Greeks began to paint onto wet plaster (6:15). Fresco style began with Michelangelo (6:25). The implementation of beeswax in wall art (6:32) lead to the use of wax bound paints for protection on ships of war (6:44). Arts of the Christian church (7:36) are looked to. Egg tempura (8:59) is mixed with pigment (9:09) and water. An artist uses gesso (9:41). Theopolis was well versed in wall paint employing a method (10:15) including flax and hot water. Red Varnish is lacquered onto wood (11:31). Methods for oil paint would be refined 300 years later (11:55) through work of Flemish artists. Resin from pine trees is distilled to produce turpentine (12:15). Techniques developed by Jan Van Eyck (12:36) lead to the easel picture. Art is traced to the Renaissance (13:23). By the close of the 17th century, the apothecary shop was replaced by oil merchants (14:13), color men and distillers. Sources for colors are noted including indigo plants used to produce a dark hue (15:46). Turpentine operated as a paint thinner (16:48). As the world grew, paint materials could be sourced from father reaches (17:01). Japanese art greatly influenced the formation of the varnish industry (17:33). The industrial revolution (18:53) further altered the paint industry. Rust and erosion had to be combatted (19:19). Lead and zinc based painted were experimented with (19:42). Mass production lead to the nullification of ancient techniques as chemistry replaced craftsmanship. Industrial paint factories are explored (21:03). The film begins to wrap up with industrial painters spraying swaths of color over commercial buildings (22:25). Pigments once formed with natural materials is shown too crafted with chemicals (23:44). The Shell logo closes the film (25:11).
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As a Material Scientist who studied in the eighties let me make a comment.
This video is EXCELLENT for the understanding of paint and its history. This was exceptionally well researched and even I learnt many new ideas here.
Fifty years later, we are still using the same formulations of the seventies but undoubtedly manufacturers have more and newer formulas.
Thank you Periscope for this brilliant incite into a most important topic.
By the way, most materials fail; either from wear or corrosion. So this industry gives us the quality of life we presently have.
This video reminds me of Wednesday morning movies in grade school. Eight millimeter films meant to influence and educate 9 and 10 year olds. Good stuff. Fill children's brain with history, art, chemistry and science. Create people of value, not complainers who want their safe space when their world of limited knowledge is challenged. Thank you for the video.
Influence is right! Only years later we would realize that most of these films were paid for and distributed by Big Corporations and Think Tanks that had more than a product to "sell".
And when you go back now and rewatch them, it's plain to see many of them had a clear agenda. Lol.
@@dong6839 better this agenda , then the kids to be stick and stoped on with drogs ! 🤔
This video on paint 🎨 really covers it well. 😁
Great narration! So unlike the sing-song idiocy by the "scary voice guy" of TV "documentaries" today.
Excellent My family had a paint mfg factory in Ronkonkoma ,NY "JAYCO".
My Grandparents made epoxy ,Oil and Latex 1949-1982.
Guess it wasn't very good paint, huh?
@@20alphabet Yeah because of liberals like you supporting presidents who support China putting American businesses out of business. How about that alphabet!? Let’s go Brandon!
A wonderful film used as a colour trade test transmission - marvellous !
Great Documentary!
I was surprised to see PPE in 1967. I didn't think that became the norm until the '70's.
I've seen PPE in use in images dating back to the 1920's. Some things are more obviously requiring protection than others.
Great to see amage being paid to the paint chemist
This is like watching paint dry... really.
xD
I started painting in January. This is very interesting.
The left can't meme.
@@meat-eatingvegan6597 they can’t make sense either!!
My chemistry teacher in the 1970's said as a graduate they were taken around German factories after WW2. He said they were amazed how advanced Germany was in chemistry regards, nitrates, synthetics and pigments. A whole new chemistry brought about by the needs of war.
Many accomplishments are due to German technology!
It's a shame most of mankind's accomplishments are due to war, or war related circumstances.
SPLENDID ❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍 8:50 -17:50
The way the narrator speaks. Reminds me of Peter Weller.
Or Rod Serling
The ceiling to the chapel at the holy city of the Wichita’s painted using the pigments obtained from 52 flowers native to the Wichita Mountains using Indian techniques
Pigment and binder
How long does it take these days?
Now for the other side of the medal: what about the abundant deposits of microplastic it leaves in the environment?
No, really, what about them, ... Shell?
This is one of the 'Trade Test Colour Films' that were transmitted during the early 1970's in the UK.
I hated the one about electricity...
Why did you hate the one about electricity?
Yes I recognised the general similarities too. I seem to remember the 1970s film was a remake of this. I may have remembered wrongly.
I've jut checked and the film is the same with an English voice-over.
They glossed over the important parts
I just came to watch paint dry.. very disappointed 😛 Thank you PeriscopeFilm! 👏
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It's interesting that they skipped over the fact that they used to grind up mummies from Egypt to get a certain brown.
Also the fact that the house paints they were still making at the time had lead in them.
Egyptian brown.
Was that a Ford sinking into a tub of rust at the start.
It looked like a Falcon
Looked like a Ford Cortina Mk 2 which launched in October 1966.
I’d say it was Cortina mkII by Ford.
What is the hardest working part of an automobile? The Paint Job. TD Atlanta
It's no coincidence that the first four letters of paint is pain.
...but the jesso cracked, and civilizations crumbled as a result.
Disorganised mind.
Like watching....paint dry. So glad I skipped along.
The production company that made this should have been called We Can Make Any Subject Boring.
Just as paint was invented to make art, clay was fired to produce sculpture for thousands of years before anyone thought of using it for pottery.
Untrue
Silly
Please understand human history is Biblical, top to bottom. Everything, beginning and ending with Word of God.
How long will you tell the myth of millions and billion years of nonsense ?
Haha funny one.