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The sculptor reminisces about his influences and the place of his early imagination.Henry Moore, son of a Yorkshire miner, ranks among the greatest sculptors of all time. This documentary looks at his family background and history, as well as focusing on the influences in his life. In this late documentary focusing on his schooldays, sculptor Henry Moore reminisces about the influences of his parents and teachers, and of Castleford, the place of his early imagination. He speaks with warmth for his hard-working mother and self-taught father, and of two of his art teachers. Moore's insightful stories of his early days are accompanied by film of a boy representing Moore in his wanderings around the industrial and country landscape of his childhood and youth

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