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The little ballerina
- Title
- The little ballerina [videorecording]
- Publication
- 1947.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (62 min.) : sd., b&w; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Drama about a poor family struggling to send their daughter Joan to ballet school, where she hopes to become as great a dancer as Margot Fonteyn. Fonteyn appears as an established ballet dancer who auditions and chooses Joan to dance in a performance.
- Uniform Title
- Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
- Note
- A J. Arthur Rank Children's Entertainment production, filmed at Nettlefold Studios, Walton on Thames. Released on videotape by Video Images, 1983.
- Producer: Geoffrey Barkas. Director: Lewis Gilbert. Screenplay: Michael Barringer and Geoffrey Barkas from an original story by Mary Cathcart-Borer and Lewis Gilbert.
- Dance technical adviser: Mary Skeaping. Ballet arrangement: Anna Ivanova and Mark Skeaping. Decors and costumes: Don Chaffey. Scenic artist: Simpson Robinson. Music: Chopin, Glazounov and Tchaikovsky.
- Fonteyn dances an excerpt from Les sylphides, partnered by Michael Somes.
- Performer (note)
- Yvonne Marsh (Joan), Kay Henderson (Pam), Marian Chapman (Sally), Doreen Richards (Lydia), Anita Holland (Carol), Martita Hunt (Miss Chrichton), and Margot Fonteyn (herself).
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-435
- OCLC
- NYPY867030771-F
- Title
- The little ballerina [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1947.
- Cast
- Yvonne Marsh (Joan), Kay Henderson (Pam), Marian Chapman (Sally), Doreen Richards (Lydia), Anita Holland (Carol), Martita Hunt (Miss Chrichton), and Margot Fonteyn (herself).
- Local Subject
- Ballet in motion pictures. Little ballerina.
- Added Author
- Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991, dancer.Somes, Michael, 1917-1994, dancer.Marsh, Joan. PerformerRichards, Doreen. PerformerSkeaping, Mary.Ivanova, A. K.Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Composer
- Added Title
- Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-435