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The Figurehead

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Content within this clip may require additional clearances (eg: trademark, audio rights and/or property/personality releases) depending on Licensee’s specific use of material.
Largest available format 720 × 576 px 2,249 MB
Dimension [pixels] File size [MB] Duration [Seconds]
Footage 720 × 576 px 2,248.6 MB 428
FOOTAGE number
HBF481585
Video title
The Figurehead
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Medium
16mm
Date
1953 AD (C20th AD)
Video description

A poem of unrequited love: the Halas and Batchelor animation studio’s first puppet production in 1953. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figure-head on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and the figurehead is saved by a beautiful mermaid who falls in love with him. Her love is not returned because despite his dashing looks he has the wooden heart of a saint.

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Halas & Batchelor / Bridgeman Images
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