Artists Must Live
1953
28 min
English
Little in life comes free: one question that should be asked of any art form is who's paying for it.
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Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and sculptures to the strains of the BBC Radio Orchestra.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Arts Council of Great Britain, BBC
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Top Cast
Reg Butler as Self
Clifford Ellis as Self
Patrick Heron as Self
Ivor Hitchens as Self
Rodrigo Moynihan as Self
Top Crew
John Read · Director
A.A. Englander · Cinematographer
John Elliot · Producer
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