Footage of ballerina Margot Fonteyn is to be screened for the first time since it was first broadcast more than 64 years ago after a canister of film was discovered in BBC archives.
It features newly-recovered scenes of a kiss sequence from her performance of Sleeping Beauty which was initially seen during a live transmission on December 20, 1959.
There had been fears that nothing had survived from the second part of the performance.
But after months of searching through archives researchers came across six film cans and hunting through, they discovered the one surviving copy of the second part of the performance.
Dancer Darcey Bussell will present a program for British TV which looks back at the Royal Ballet performance, called Fonteyn '59: Sleeping Beauty, to be broadcast on March 7.
