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Henry Moore: carving a reputation.

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Bib. Number0017783

Henry Moore: carving a reputation.

Place PublishedLondon
Year
Date & Collation50mins+48mins.Black and White.Colour. Sound.Executive Producer: Keith ALEXANDER.Produced and Directed by James RUNCIE. Narrator: Francine STOCK.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationMade in association with Fuji Television and the Society for International Cultural Exchange, Japan. Henry Moore Centenary film, transmitted on BBC 2 in two parts: on 18 July 1998 and 19 July 1998, cited in Radio Times 18-24 July 1998 as part of BBC 2's Sculpture Season.Incorporates extracts from previous BBC films of Moore, and from Out of Chaos (See 0008950). The narration quotes statements by Moore. Sculptures and drawings are seen throughout the films, including sketchbook pages.
Part One: 1898-1945.
(Interviews with BACALL Lauren, CRAIGIE Jill, GINESI Edna, McLEOD Malcolm, COLLINS Elizabeth, WYNDHAM Joan, FLETCHER Valerie, CURTIS Penelope, WRENCH Bill, MOORE Mary, LIEBERMANN William, BOWNESS Alan, WILKINSON Alan G., HINDRY Ann, MEADOWS Bernard, RANDALL-PAGE Peter, ANDREWS Julian. W.H. Auden's reading of As I Walked Out One Evening. Photographs and films with brief statements on: Yorkshire childhood, World War 1, Leeds School of Art, Royal College of Art, Direct Carving and Truth to Material, Rodin, Michelangelo, British Museum, Primitivism, Irina Moore, Hampstead in the 1930s, Barbara Hepworth, Picasso, Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone, Kenneth Clark, War Drawings Northampton Madonna and Child, 1943-1944 Hornton stone).
Part Two: 1945-1986.
(Further extracts from Henry Moore films, and more contributions from Penelope Curtis, Alan Bowness, Lauren Bacall, William Liebermann, Mary Moore, Peter Randall-Page, Malcolm McLeod, Edna Ginesi. Plus interviews with ICHIKAWA Shigeru, ROSENBERG Alex, ASH Maurice, HERON Patrick, SPENDER Natasha, ALLEMAND-COSNEAU Claude, GIARDINI Giulio, CARO Anthony, PEI I.M., MITCHINSON David, FINN David, KING Phillip, GUAITA Maria Liuga, JACKSON Jeanette, GIBBERD Patricia. Stephen Spender's reading of In Attica. Margaret THATCHER referred to Moore as a lovely man, but she didn't like those great big lumpy things. Hakone Open-Air Museum, Warriors, Harlow Family Group, 1954-1955 Hadene stone, Reclining Figure: Festival, 1951 bronze, King and Queen, 1952-1953 bronze, U.N.E.S.C.O. Recling Figure, 1957-1958 travertine marble. Carrara, Fortei dei Marmi, Glenkiln, Florence 1972 exhibition (See 0004285), Henry Moore Foundation.
Followed by Stone, Wood, Water with Andy Goldsworthy, the first of three short films also produced by Keith Alexander, director Ian Leese.
Recorded off-air under Clause 75 of the Copyright Act 1988.