Liberty (1986 film) Liberty (1986 film) Liberty is a television film which aired on NBC on June 23, 1986. It is a largely fictionalized account of the construction of the Statue of Liberty, which had been completed 100 years earlier. Scenes were shot on location in Paris and Baltimore. Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (Frank Langella) and author Édouard de Laboulaye (Jean-Pierre Cassel) agree to create a monument to present to the United States on behalf of the French people. Bartholdi searches for a model, approaching (and romancing) young woman Jeanne Baheau (Corinne Touzet) for the body of the statue, and deciding to use
Statue of the Viscount Slim, London for the statue is in the collection of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. The inscriptions on the Portland stone pedestal were carved by David Kindersley. They read as follows: A further inscription wrapping around step below the pedestal gives the names of places connected with the Burma Campaign: At the back of the statue's self-base are inscribed the name of the sculptor, , and the foundry: . Statue of the Viscount Slim, London The statue of William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim in Whitehall, London, is a work of 1988–93 by the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones. It is one of three