This is a black and white photograph of the festival director Dermot Breen with an unidentified guest standing in front of a handwritten sign which asks patrons to be careful. Breen, shown in profile, right arm raised in gesticulation, is in animated…
This is a black and white photograph of the film director Delbert Mann with the American actor Ernest Borgnine. They are standing side-by-side holding an award that has been presented to Mann by the twelfth Cork International Film Festival, September…
This is a black and white photo of the Czech-born German film actor Winnie Markus at a meal. She is shown mid-bite, eating a sausage, smiling up towards the camera. Markus is dressed in a light-coloured sleeveless evening gown decorated with…
This is a black and white photo of the Yugoslav-born Italian actor Sylva Koscina, standing with an unidentified companion, looking over an elevated street view from Connaught Avenue in Cork City. Koscina is wearing a Glen-check two-piece suit and is…
This is a black and white photo of a festival award marked Cork Film Festival 1979 European Community Award. The award is placed on a small circular table in a dining room where we can just make out some people milling around in the background. One…
This is a black and white photo of the English actor Mollie Peters sitting on the bonnet of a classic Mercedes-Benz car. Dressed in white trousers and a checkered shirt, Peters is leaning back and holding a local guide book of Cork while smiling at…
This is a sepia-toned black and white photo of President Seán T O’Kelly being escorted into the Savoy Cinema by the Irish impresario Louis Elliman. This was taken in 1956 during the first edition of the Cork International Film Festival and would have…
This is a black and white photo of film actors, Heidelinde Weis, Bettine Le Beau and Eva Ingeborg-Scholz, signing autographs for the office staff of Beamish & Crawford Ltd during a reception for delegates attending the 13th Cork Film Festival in…
This is a black and white photo of Miss Movie Girl 1973, Betty Philbin, taken on the mobile stairway of an aeroplane with a group of family and associates. The stairway is marked with the Aer Lingus logo and we might guess that this picture was taken…
This is a black and white photo of festival staff, dressed in film festival promotional sweatshirts, on the roof of the Cork Opera House. They are posing amidst the roof-top detritus of abandoned steel poles and advertising hoarding while below them…