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This is a black and white photo, dated 1969, of festival director Dermot Breen and his wife Vida, accompanied by two colleagues identified as Jimmy Campbell and Frank O'Reilly. The small group is shown in evening wear ascending the stone steps of the…

This is a black and white photo of Joseph Tomelty, the Irish character actor, novelist and playwright, reading from the pulpit of St. Francis' Church on Liberty Street in Cork. Joseph Tomelty (1911-1995) was a cultural tour de force from the North of…

This is a black and white photo of Roy Gunson, Margaret Savage, and the vice-chairman of the festival committee, Richard (Dick) Beamish, taken at a reception held at the Martini Terrace, New Zealand House, in London. On the far left the bespectacled…

This is an undated black and white photo of an award presentation to unidentified participants of the festival. The image is interesting because of the nature of the award itself which is an elaborate three-tiered multi-column confection unlike the…

This is a black and white photo of the German actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz standing on the deck of a small wooden boat with an unidentified companion who crouches below her on the right of the picture. Scholz, with barefeet, is wearing a dark jumper and…

This is a black and white photo of the German film actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz (1928-) standing with the festival director Dermot Breen, the Iranian-German film producer Vasgen Badal and Dinny Gould. All four are dressed in formal wear and smiling.…

This is a black and white photo of the pioneering film critic Bjørn Rasmussen. In this photo, marked 1958, Rasmussen is seated at a desk speaking into a microphone. He rests his hands, folded over each other, on the crook of a wooden walking stick…

This is a black and white photo, marked 1958, of Dermot Breen, Donal Crosbie, John Grierson and the Iranian-German film producer Vasgen Badal sitting together at a table in conversation. The festival director Dermot Breen, with his back to us, is…

This is a black and white photo of the actor Cyril Cusack with the television presenter Eamon Andrews and the film festival director Dermot Breen. A bearded Cyril Cusack stands on the left, arms folded, in mid-conversation while both Eamon Andrews,…

These black and white photos are of the German film actor Heinrich (Heinz) Rühmann and the film festival director Dermot Breen.Heinz Rühmann, standing on the left in these photos, was born in 1902. He was a prolific German film and television actor…