Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/6/5/3/4
Title
"Visuals and Sync Pieces" for programme 4 of 'The Ascent of Man', 'The Hidden Structure'
Date(s)
- c. 1970-c. 1972 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Name of creator
(1908 - 1974)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Comprises: a "visual summary" for programme 4; notes on commentary ideas to accompany the visual summary from [Bronowski to David Paterson and Jo Marquand] (Dec 1970) and on special research to be done; notes on the order of programme 4; annotated sync to camera scripts for a laboratory, Alchemists' Cell and Walk, and Manchester; quotations about Francis Bacon and alchemists; transcripts of film syncs shot in the Smithsonian Institution Museum of History and Technology, an alchemist's cell, at Wieliczka, at the Rose & Crown in Ramsbottom, and about alchemists and Paracelsus.
Also includes a sync script and transcript for a sequence that was to be recorded at Machu Picchu, but was recorded in Tennessee because of weather.