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Between Film and Art: Storyboards from Hitchcock to Spielberg Exhibited in Berlin

BERLIN.- For the first time, the Museum für Film und Fernsehen, in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Emden, is showing storyboards for films of the last 80 years to a wide audience. The spectrum spans from delicate, monochrome works in graphite and Indian ink to tremendous bursts of color carried out in colored pencils, crayons or felt-tip pens, chalk and watercolor. A storyboard serves to visualize motion pictures, long before shooting actually begins. Both the sequences in front of the camera and the movements of the camera itself can be sketched out like in a comic strip. A storyboard allows insights into the artistic conception of a film on the one hand, while also developing its own independent, aesthetic attraction. Although the storyboard as an art form is close to the classic sketch with its centuries-old tradition, until now it has remained almost undiscovered within a museum context. The curators of the ex