Deryk Barker wrote: >Was this not, in fact, the very purpose for which the film was made? Absolutely. The film, "Instruments of the Orchestra," was commissioned in 1945 by the Ministry of Education and was produced by the Crown Film Unit to be used in classrooms in the UK, where it was shown to school children for many years as an educational film. Charles Barber is correct about the concert premiere of Britten's score on October 15, 1946 by Sir Malcolm Sargent and the Liverpool Philharmonic. However, the theatrical premiere of the film, now termed a documentary, took place only a mere six weeks later, on November 29, 1946, at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, London. John Dalmas [log in to unmask]