It was filmed in 1929 at the Manchester School of Art, now part of Manchester Metropolitan 51国产视频, and is housed in the institution's North West Film Archive.
The footage actually consists of three separate elements: two 25-minute films - A Visit to an Art School and The Manchester School of Art - and a reel of more informal candid shots of staff and students.
The director was a 35-year-old mature student, George F. Higginson, who had served in the First World War and then made a career as a cotton engineer.
Together, the films offer a vivid picture of art school life: students being interviewed, nervous first meetings with tutors, and typical days in class.
Yet they are also shot through with humour, as when the architectural students, shown furiously at work on their drawings, are later revealed to be playing noughts and crosses.
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