Title:CONSTRUCTION OF MAQUETTES FOR IRAQI HANDS OF VICTORY MONUMENT (TAPE 6) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6862-6
Other titles:PRODUCTION OF HANDS OF VICTORY MONUMENT IN BAGHDAD FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Work progresses on maquettes (full scale and part scale) for the "Hands of Victory" sculpture in the sculptor's workshop. (This tape has sound.)
Description: Philip Jackson, the British sculptor, welcomes Mohammed Ghani, the Iraqi sculptor in overall charge of the project. They inspect the full size maquette of the hand, now erected in its holding frame; Mohammed Ghani makes numerous suggestions during detailed discussions. (He also reveals that Saddam Hussein had "very soft hands".) Long shots of the maquette in its frame.
Alternative Title:PRODUCTION OF HANDS OF VICTORY MONUMENT IN BAGHDAD FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 6862-6
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1988-09-16
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Lauren Productions (Production company)
Morris Singer (Production sponsor)
Leger, Alex (Production individual)
