China's Terracotta Army | movie | 2007 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00Hello, welcome to London TV with me, Lesley Collier.

00:04Today we're down at the British Museum for an exhibition entitled

00:07The First Emperor, China's Terracotta Army,

00:10which was discovered quite by chance in 1974 by a group of villagers.

00:15Now when we think of the Terracotta Army,

00:17we tend to think of the statues all lined up en masse.

00:20However, this exhibition allows us to see the details

00:23and the intricacies of the individual warriors of the afterlife.

00:30The Terracotta Army is consisting of about 7,000 life-size figures of warriors

00:40and about 800 forces.

00:42They're thought to be guarding two of the First Emperor of China.

00:46We've divided the exhibition into two halves.

00:48In the first half, we tell the story of the First Emperor,

00:53where he came from, a little about his background, his rise to power,

00:59his unification of China.

01:01And then in the second half, we move on to talk about his tomb complex

01:06and, of course, the Terracotta Army.

01:10They're just as works of art.

01:11They're very, very special.

01:12But to be able to have the background behind them

01:15and to understand the story of why they were made,

01:17how they were made,

01:19that is the aim of this exhibition.

01:21They've been excavating around the tomb complex

01:28and they've found many other equally stunning discoveries,

01:32life-size bronze birds and Terracotta musicians playing to them as well.

01:37And we have examples of all of this in the exhibition.

01:40The First Emperor, China's Terracotta Army,

01:46is on now at the British Museum until April 2008.

01:50It's open Sunday to Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.,

01:54and Thursday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.

01:58Tickets cost £12 for adults and under-16s go for free.

02:02The nearest tube is Holborn.