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This is a black and white photo of the the English actor Dawn Addams at the telephone exchange. Addams, in a light-coloured day dress, is wearing a headset and is shown connecting a call. She is seated next to two telephone operators, also wearing…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Dawn Addams with the festival director Dermot Breen and his wife Vida. The three are in mid-conversation with both Vida and Dermot looking at Dawn Addams who is caught in the moment looking up to…

This is a black and white group photo of delegates at the 1957 Cork Film Festival. The formally dressed group are mostly standing facing the camera. The festival director Dermot Breen is crouched down on his haunches in the front of the group along…

This is a black and white photo of the film producter Vasgen Badal and Norma Crosbie greeting each other. Both are in formal wear and Badal looks on, vaguely distracted, while Norma Crosbie, dressed in a white lace dress, leans in to kiss him. The…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Sir Alec Guinness standing with the festival director Dermot Breen. They are outdoors, possibly on a boat, standing side-by-side wearing heavy coats. Both are looking directly at the camera;…

This is a black and white postcard originating from the Danish production company A/S Nordisk Film Junior. It is dated December 1958 and depicts the St Finbarr bronze statuette. The base of the statuette in this image is engraved Féile Scannán…

The 2002 festival programme cover is a green-themed montage of film stills and festival information. The montage depicts twelve film stills from films being shown that year at the festival; they include Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, 2002), A Man…

The image on the 2008 festival programme cover is vivid with black silhouettes of three birds amidst a floral-like scene of foliage. The foliage is made up of film reel strips in various colours of green interspaced with brighter pinks and purples.…

The front cover of the 2004 festival programme is text-heavy with an image by the experimental artist Malcolm Le Grice, who exhibited at the Triskel Art Centre in Cork during the 2004 Festival. Le Grice is interested in experimental images in the…

This is a black and white photo of two unidentified glamorous women arriving at the Savoy cinema in Cork. They are wearing knee-length evening dresses, each accessorized with a fur stole and a small handbag. A large crowd gathers around them as far…