And it is equally unlikely that we would have been able to watch the event on a screen painted with moving electrons in our living rooms.

A foot-square wall panel slid open, revealing a lighted screen painted with the blue outline of a right hand.

Next was a low screen painted with shrubs and brush, which moved at 400 feet per minute.

The South Sea beach is backed by a huge blue screen painted with wisps of cloud.

Folding screens painted with strange birds hid walls and windows.

Mr. Izzard said the screen, painted about 1800, must have been produced at court.

In a corner near the bedroom is another present from Davis: a flowered screen painted by her mother.

Murakami's handbags were presented along with two small paneled screens painted in the same patterns that appear on the bags.

And Ruth came back from behind the screen with a white paper in her hand, brightly painted green and mauve.

It was decorated with screens painted with lifesize cherry trees in full bloom.