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Dunstan Times, Issue 3130, 14 August 1922, Page 8

The directors of the Louvre have announced that the finest collection of statutory in the world soon will be filmed and shown to the public. The leaders of Freijfch art and science have long insisted that proper filming would enhance the value of the national collection a. thousandfold. They point out that the beauty of great sculpture usually depends upon the illusion of movement conveyed, and that this depends largely upon the light in which it is placed. The superiority of the Louvre collection is partly due to the careful placing of the statues under diluted sunlight, which is stationary except as the sun moves from east to west. The most sensitive modern film camera controls the light almost absolutely and will, if properly operated, bring out the latent “soul” in each dead masterpiece. The Louvre directors have already experimented with the famous seventeenth century head of Henry IV., which, slowly revolved before the camera, displays on all sides realism that has been buried for generations. A group of Greek treasures—notably the Winged Victory —are to be tried next to bring out even more movement thay already is apparent in the celebrated work of the ancient sculptors. The pieces of Rodin, who is known to have often rebelled under the limitations of his clay, are expected to reveal marvels of liberated feeling under the new treatment. A motor-coach plying between Cattaro and Cettinje was held up by a gang of armed Montenegrin bandits, who carried off a sum of £3200, as well as jewellery taken from the travellers, and Serbian Government funds amounting to £I2OO taken from the .military guards. The bandits tipped the coach over an embankment, and went away with the clothes of the passengers, who had to walk to Cettinje in their underwear.