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This is a black and white photo of three unidentified festival guests. The rear of the photo states that the photo is of two actors from Portugal ‘that no one could communicate with’ ... . The picture shows the two women smiling broadly for the…

This is a black and white photo of the actor Robert Shaw and Vida Breen at the entrance of the Capitol Cinema in Cork. Robert Shaw, in a dress suit, looks up towards the camera smiling, his hand linked through Vida Breen’s arm. She is dressed in a…

This is a black and white photo of the Czech-born German film actor Winnie Markus taken in 1957 in front of the City Hall in Cork. Wearing a light-coloured summer dress, with white kitten-heeled slip-on shoes, she rests her right hand on the chained…

This is a black and white photo of festival attendees taken during the 1956 film festival. The group are dressed in formal evening wear, with the men wearing dark evening suits and Moira Lister wearing an off-the-shoulder long dark-coloured gown.…

This is a black and white photo, marked ‘1960s workshop’. A large audience fill the room with young listeners seated at the back and older listeners to the front. The speaker (or film) is off-camera and has the attention of the room. A double-reel…

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 a black and white photo of the audience for a screening during the festival. The back of the photo identifies only Justin Keating who we see seated on the far right in the front row, looking down laughing. We recognise the former Lord Mayor,…

This black and white photo shows an audience listening to an unidentified speaker at the Pavilion Cinema in Cork as part of the festival workshop programme. We can see the back of the audience facing the stage with its empty white screen. The…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Jack Wild posing with a festival attendee identified as 'Mrs. Simon Wade from Toronto, Canada'. Wild, with his distinctive long hair and a festival ribbon pinned to his open-neck shirt, would have…

This is a black and white photo of the actors John Clive, Pamela Stephenson and Nicholas Ball in a photo dated 1970. All three are facing the camera smiling. Clive and Ball wear a festival ribbon pinned to their jackets and we also notice how the…