News on Screen

Series

Series Name

London Line

Issue

Issue No.

584

Length of issue (in feet)

180

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Dance Sculptor

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Australian-born Tom Merrifield was a successful ballet dancer until an injury put paid to his career. He taught himself to sculpt in bronze and is now the foremost sculptor of dancers in the world. Our reporter visits Tom during a sitting with Royal Ballet star, Antoinette Sibley and talks to Tom about how he is still dancing - through his sculpture.

Keywords

Music and dance; Arts and crafts

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1257/584

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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