These servicemen were disfigured during World War 1. One woman made it her mission to help them recover their old faces, and their identity ...
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00:30She convinced them to send her over to Paris, where she opened a studio for portrait masks.
00:42And then she, with a team of artisan sculptors and craftspeople, started making masks for
00:48men who had had their faces blown away, their jaws, their noses, their ears.
00:53These were tin-alloy masks, which she would then paint with her assistants.
01:23When they met the patient, the face was already gone.
01:43So they would write his mother or his girlfriend or his wife, say, do you have any photographs
01:48of what he looked like?
01:49And they were trying to find what the man's characteristic expression was, his most normal
01:55facial expression.