Traces Picasso’s life from childhood to old age showing a retrospective of his paintings and sculpture filmed on location at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Hermitage in Leningrad, the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Some glimpses of Picasso’s personal life are provided with comments by his son Claude Picasso, his former wife and Don Luis Miquel Dominguin, the famous Spanish bullfighter. Includes film clips showing scenes of Gertrude Stein, Georges Braque, the Spanish Civil War, the bombing of Guernica in the 1900’s, and Russian Communists applauding the political sympathies of Picasso. Written and reported by Charles Collingwood.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
008369
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television
Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Spain - History - Civil War, 1936-1939
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Spanish
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - Spain
Crafts & Visual Arts → Braque, Georges, 1882-1963
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Modern - 20th century - Spain
Crafts & Visual Arts → Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Crafts & Visual Arts → Sculpture, Spanish
Crafts & Visual Arts → Stein, Gertrude
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communism - Soviet Union
History → Guernica (Spain) - History - Bombardment, 1937
History → Spain - History - Civil War, 1936-1939
People → Braque, Georges, 1882-1963
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)