Big Lady (1968)
Brighton, East Sussex. In a back garden we see various shots of sculptor David Whipp at work, welding pieces of metal together on a huge abstract statue of a Suffragette. A girl in a bikini (looking rather cold) poses on a stool with her arms raised above her head. The progress is watched by Mrs MarieLouise Cohen, who commissioned the statue, and her two children. Commentator explains she is something of a 60s suffragette: She won a legal fight to become a candidate for an allmale council, but was later outvoted in favour of five men. The statue was commemorating women s greatest victory for women for the Brighton Arts Festival. It was hoped that the statue would eventually take up a position in Pankhurst Avenue near Brighton racecourse I wonder if it did Note: there are cameraman s notes and a news cutting about the statue on file. The model could be Zita Madenville. Cameraman David Allan notes The model didn t charge for the goose pimples . FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH P
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