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0013870
The Aldeburgh Story.
Publisher: Aldeburgh Festival-Snape Maltings Foundation
Place Published: Aldeburgh
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 20mins.Colour and Black & White stills.Music by Benjamin Britten.
Description: The story of the Aldeburgh Festival the Snape Maltings Concert Hall and the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies told by Sir Peter Pears". Includes two very brief views of Moore's Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points 1969-1970 bronze."
0010088
Extracts from Letters Written by Henri Jonquières to Walter Strachan concerning the idea of a French book to be illustrated by Henry Moore.
Publisher: HMF library copy
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 30 mins. Sound recording.
Description: Walter Strachan reads in English extracts from a dozen letters he received in his liaising between Jonquières and Moore on the production of Prométhée (See 0008261). They date from 4 May 1950 to 12 March 1951 and range over Jonquières' initial concept; the participation of Mourlot; the timing, with pressure from Gide; and details of plates and proofs. Moore visited Paris during the project and Jonquières expressed his satisfaction. Moore understands everything...exact realisation of what I had felt and dreamed of". Publication preview took place in Galerie Maeght 11 May 1951 sponsored by British Council and continued to 23 May 1951."
0010087
Calendar, 19 July 1979.
Publisher: Yorkshire Television
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 30 seconds.Colour.Silent.
Description: Local T.V. news programme view of Stonehenge prints. Inscribed 'Henry Moore Lithographs Gift/Wakefield Art Gallery'.
0002599
Point Counterpoint: the life and work of Georges Seurat 1859-1891; written and narrated by David THOMPSON, produced by Ann TURNER.
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
Place Published: London
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: ..min.Colour.Sound.
Description: Television film made in association with R.M. Productions, Munich. Includes a five-minute interview with Henry MOORE in his Gildmore Studio, in which he states that he has always regarded Seurat as one of the great draughtsmen. Appreciation stems from Moore's experience in producing Coal Mine Drawings, some of which are seen on screen. Light came through dust-like atmosphere, reminding him of Seurat's understanding of form and ability to make light come off the paper. Moore also notes Millet's influence on Seurat.
0002592
Hakone Open-Air Museum.
Publisher: Hakone Open-Air Museum
Place Published: Hakone
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 40 mins.Colour.Sound.Executive Producer Nobutaka SHIKANAI.
Description: English commentary and views of the setting, buildings, and activities of the Museum on its 10th anniversary. Includes several glimpses, and half-minute sections, on Reclining Figure: Arch Leg, 1969-1970 bronze and Family Group, 1948-1949 bronze transferred from the Rockefeller Collection in 1979.
0002591
Henry Moore.
Publisher: Audio Visual Productions
Place Published: Chepstow
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: Plastic wallet containing 32 slides.
Description: Colour slides taken at 1978 Serpentine Gallery/Kensington Gardens exhibition (See 0002718-0002719) depicting works 1959-1978. Also 2pp typed sheet listing the slides, and giving brief biographical background information. Also available as double frame colour filmstrip. Audio Visual number: 35 701.
0002594
Henry Moore for New York, Wildenstein 1979. Part 2.
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry.
Publisher: Henry Moore Foundation
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 60 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Second part of unpublished sound recording made with Juliet Wilson in preparation for Henry Moore: drawings 1969-79 (See 0002478). Moore speaks for another hour, often examining individual drawings. Hands, including Dorothy Hodgkin's; Trees, related to human and landscape forms; Bonfire Drawings; Mother and Child theme; Collage drawings; Masaccio and other Old Masters; and briefly on other sections of the exhibition. Pen Exercises; Heads; Elephant drawings; Girl Doing Homework.
0002595
Henry Moore for New York, Wildenstein 1979. Part 3.
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry.
Publisher: Henry Moore Foundation
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 16 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Third part of unpublished sound recording made with Juliet Wilson in preparation for Henry Moore: drawings 1969-79 (See 0002478). Moore speaks about his interpretations of the work of Old Masters: Giovanni Bellini, Dürer, Donatello and Cézanne's Bathers.
0002598
The National Gallery Builds.
Publisher: Guggenheim Productions
Place Published: Washington, D.C.
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 13 mins.Colour.Sound.
Description: Made for the National Gallery of Art. Supervised and edited by Steve YORK. To music and descriptive commentary, views of extension to National Gallery of Art building works, together with brief views of I.M. Pei discussing the plans and architectural model. Henry Moore is seen briefly with Alexander Calder and I.M. Pei discussing the sculptural commissions. Moore expresses the view that the commissions should be in the form of free-standing sculpture rather than reliefs.
0002597
(Message from Henry Moore).
Publisher: Fuji Telecasting Company
Place Published: Tokyo
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 35 mins.Colour.Sound.In English.
Description: Made as part of 10th anniversary celebrations of Hakone Open-Air Museum. Views of Museum followed by scenes of London events at Howard Hotel and Café Royal. Sculptures by Moore are seen at Harlow, and in London settings of Battersea Park, Chelsea School of Art, Abingdon Street Gardens opposite the Houses of Parliament, Millbank, Brandon Estate, Stifford Estate, Birdcage Walk. Journey to Much Hadham, where sculpture is seen in studios and grounds of the estate; and Moore speaks articulately and in detail to interviewer on the maquette process, about King and Queen, 1952-1953 bronze, its detail and how the initial ideas developed. He comments on Materials, including the Mother and Child, 1978 stalactite and his awareness of their organic nature. Moore then comments on why he prefers the solid form of his sculpture to contrast with space, against the changing and asymmetric nature of trees and clouds. He expresses a wish to produce a sense of action into sculpture without actual movement. Finally he approves of the concept of an Open Air museum for sculpture, like Hakone.
Title romanized: Henri Mua kara no meseji.
0002600
The Young at Art: Clay Figures.
Publisher: WSJK-T.V.
Place Published: Knoxville
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 15 mins.Colour.Sound.Created by Sally CRAIN.Produced and directed by Susan SHANKS.
Description: Made in cooperation with A.I.T.: Agency for Instructional Television. One of a series of children's art instructional programmes. Moore's Family Group, 1945 bronze is shown as one of the examples of sculptor's approaches to the human figure in a programme on modelling in clay. His
0002593
Henry Moore for New York, Wildenstein 1979. Part 1.
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry.
Publisher: Henry Moore Foundation
Place Published: Much Hadham
Year: 1979
Date & Collation: 60 mins.Sound recording.
Description: Unpublished sound recording made with Juliet Wilson in preparation for Henry Moore: drawings 1969-79 (See 0002478). Moore speaks for an hour on his love of drawing; his Castleford childhood and his father; Leeds School of Art and reading Roger Fry; Royal College of Art, William Rothenstein and Epstein; Human figure and the science of drawing; drawing for pleasure, blotting paper drawings, and drawing sheep.