Athens, Greece - 19 June 2009 DAY SHOTS 1. Pan right from new Acropolis Museum to Art Deco building located on pedestrian road between Acropolis and new museum 2. Close up of street sign reading (Greek and English) "Dionissiou Areopagitou" 3. Close up of building address number reading "17" 4. Tilt down Art Deco building 5. Close up of mosaic detail on building 6. Mid shot of two women reading sign at building entrance about campaign to save the building from demolition 7. Tilt down of marble bas-relief detail next to door 8. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Marina Kouremenou, owner of one of the apartments in the Art Deco building: "I truly don't know what will happen. It is the wish of all of us for these homes to remain in their place, for them to define and beautify the pedestrian road of Dionissiou Areopagitou and I truly believe that there are solutions. The architects have proven that there are solutions." Athens, Greece - 18 June 2009 NIGHT SHOTS 9. Wide of people gathered on Dionissiou Areopagitou pedestrian road watching projection of show featuring antiquities housed in the new Acropolis Museum seen on panel on side of Art Deco building 10. Mid of projection detail 11. Close up of projection detail seen through trees outside Art Deco building 12. Wide of Dionissiou Areopagitou pedestrian road with people watching projection Athens, Greece - 19 June 2009 DAY SHOTS 13. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Marina Kouremenou, owner of one of the apartments in the Art Deco building: "I believe that these projections are one more idea about how the buildings, all the listed buildings, could exist harmoniously with the Museum." 14. Wide of Parthenon temple on top of the Acropolis hill with Dionissiou Areopagitou pedestrian road below 15. Wide of people walking on Dionissiou Areopagitou 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamim Shukor, tourist from Singapore visiting the Art Deco building: "A very fine architecture is to be left alone, even though it may somehow interrupt the old, very old structure of the Acropolis. I should think that this should be left as it is." Athens, Greece - 17 June 2009 DAY SHOTS 17. Wide of the Acropolis, with the back side of the Art Deco building below it, as seen from the new Acropolis Museum's cafe 18. Pan left from from back of Art Deco building to the Parthenon temple London, UK - 18 June 2009 19. Wide exterior of British Museum 20. Pan of gallery showing Elgin Marbles and visitors 21. Various close-ups of details of Elgin Marbles 22. Pan from Elgin Marbles to visitors STORYLINE: Greece opens its long-anticipated new Acropolis Museum on Saturday, boosting its decades-old campaign for the return of 2,500-year-old sculptures removed from the ancient citadel by a 19th century British diplomat. However not everyone is excited about the opening. Residents of a 1930's Art Deco building near the new museum are worried about plans that their building might be demolished. According to museum officials it - together with another building - spoils the view of the ancient citadel's grandest structure - the Parthenon temple - as seen from the new museum. A plan to demolish the two buildings has opened a heated debate about sacrificing Greece's modern treasures to showcase its ancient history. Residents and architects started an internet campaign to save the buildings and received e-mails of support from around the world. With its pink marbled exterior, the Art Deco building is the most eye-catching along the Dionissiou Areopagitou pedestrian road leading to the Acropolis entrance. It was built by Vassilis Kouremenos, a graduate of Paris' Ecole des Beaux Arts and reportedly a friend of Pablo Picasso. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3959b2e24b1f687d92300dd143b4ede0 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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