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This is a black and white photo of an unidentified choir participating at the annual film festival mass. We can see the back of the choir, facing the conductor, as they sing. The conductor is looking down at his music - his arms raised in…

This is a black and white photo of an unidentified delegate standing at a microphone, his head lowered reading from a script. He is dark-haired with wire-framed glasses and wearing a long-line black belted jacket (which might help us date this image…

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 Italian film director and actor Vittorio De Sica leaving the Savoy cinema, Cork. Above De Sica we see posters advertising the comedy film Cannon Serenade (Wolfgang Staudte, 1958) in which De Sica starred as the…

This is a black and white photo of the film festival director Dermot Breen and three women marked as 'Italian Girls' on the back of the photo. Breen is shown laughing in the centre of the photo surrounded by the three women who are smiling towards…

This is a black and white photo of the film festival director Dermot Breen standing in front of a large montage-style poster advertising Féile Scannán ćorcaí (Cork Film Festival). Breen, standing to the right, is photographed looking up at the…

This is a black and white photo of the popular French actor Barbara Laage (1920-1988) aboard a small boat which the photo notes is moored on the River Lee in Cork. Laage stands on the deck of the boat, leaning over the bow with her hands on the…

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 photo of the the English actor Dawn Addams embracing the film festival director Dermot Breen. Addams is shown in profile with her arms around Breen who is smiling up above the eyeline of the camera. Both are in formal wear with Addams…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Dawn Addams being interviewed by the RTÉ broadcaster Maxwell Sweeney in 1957. Sweeney (1909-1991) was an RTÉ radio broadcaster and producer; the RTÉ archives notes that he started work with RTÉ in…