A movie in bronze: UK foundry completes giant WW1 memorial sculpture for US

(22 Jun 2024)
UK WW1 SCULPTURE

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK - 20 June 2024
1. Wide of inside Pangolin Foundry in Gloucestershire
2. Various of figures part of sculpture
3. Various of sculptor Sabin Howard working on sculpture
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Sabin Howard - Sculptor, National World War One Memorial
"This is a completion of a nine year project that began with a global competition. 360 teams entered and The Soldier's Journey was the recipient of the National World War One memorial competition. It's a story of a soldier, a father and an allegory for the United States and begins with the dad, the father, leaving home, his daughter, entering battle and in this ordeal he is transformed as the world was transformed by the decimation of 22 million people, he returns home and hands the helmet to his daughter."

5. Wide pan of sculpture structure and engineers carrying out work
6. Various sculpted soldier figure in battle
7. Wide of worker checking sculpture
8. Tilt of sculpted soldier figure giving helmet to daughter

9. SOUNDBITE (English): Sabin Howard - Sculptor, National World War One Memorial
"I made a sculpture that is not really about my creative process, it's really about telling a story that many many people will understand and that story is on many levels. It's not only about humanity, it's about healing and what happens in war, and the destruction of war, there's a section in it called the cost of war. The principal figure of the dad, when you see him at the three quarter mark, he's shell shocked, and it is the transformation that happens to human beings when they enter into war. It's also what happened to us globally a hundred years ago with World War One."

10. Medium of engineer sanding part of sculpture depicting the soldier with his wife and daughter before leaving to fight in World War One
11. Close of soldier's wife's face
12. Various of engineers with tools working on sculpture
13. Wide exterior of Pangolin Editions Foundry and Sabin Howard and his wife, Traci L. Slatton meeting and talking
14. SOUNDBITE (English): Traci Slatton-Howard, Project Manager for National World War One Memorial and Sabin Howard's wife:
"Once the design was approved, Sabin went to New Zealand to make a marquette. He made a marquette of the eventual full sculpture and then principal sculpture started in August 2019, and then we concluded principal sculpture in January 2024 and the last five figures were shipped back to Pangolin for moulding and casting into bronze in January 2024, so it's been an eight year process."

15. Various of an engineer working on the sculpture in PPE attire
16. Various of an engineer cutting metal to add to the sculpture
17. SOUNDBITE (English): Traci Slatton-Howard, Project Manager for National World War One Memorial and Sabin Howard's wife:
"The feeling of this piece was always important to Sabin. He wanted the visitor to have a visceral response. So any visitor from the United States or around the world who comes to Washington DC to see our monument could walk along this relief - all 60 feet, look at all 38 figures and would get a feeling for this is what World War One is like. This is what it looked like, and this is what it felt like, and the trenches were hell. He really wanted people to be moved. So it's like a movie in bronze."

18. Various of Sabin Howard and an engineer working on a part of the sculpture portraying the main character soldier carrying a fallen comrade
19. SOUNDBITE (English): Sabin Howard - Sculptor, National World War One Memorial



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