Art World Sensation.
Art World Sensation.
Clip: 354696_1_1
Year Shot: 1957
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1628
Original Film: 030-023-07
HD: N/A
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Timecode: 00:31:40 - 00:32:27
Art World Sensation. A new sensation bursts on the art world with the debut of Betsy, a Baltimore chimpanzee, whose abstract canvases have already found buyers a-plenty. The camera follows Betsy to her studio, for a glimpse of genius at work. Chimp wearing human clothes sits next to her paintings. This is one of those stories satirizing abstract art. A human being helps her out by putting globs of paint onto a canvas and then Betsy goes to it, fingerpainting. At one point she rubs the paint on her head. Funny.