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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

9556

Title

TED ROOCROFT - SCULPTOR EXTRA-ORDINARY

Producer

Stanley Ellam

Date

1973

Gauge

std8mm

Colour

colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

16 mins 15 secs

Description

A look at the work of pig farmer and sculptor Ted Roocroft. The film includes many of his sculptures on display in the Undercroft Gallery at Manchester Polytechnic, where he also taught. There are scenes of him working on a sculpture at his home in Cheshire, and the reel ends with a woman and child looking at one of his works in a gallery.

 

 



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