1 10 2 https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/files/original/4e1b66d97ff3ed5bf9463e0a36e03b15.jpg 49981f423e7eeae91f0cc236b91e0445 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Cork Film Festival Description An account of the resource A selection of photographs from the Cork International Film Festival Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource University College Cork Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Film Festival Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University College Cork Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1956- Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956- Cork, Ireland Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo TIFF JPEG Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Please see individual items for licencing information. ©Reproduction rights CIFF Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 253 x 202mm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Shaw and Vida Breen at the Capitol Cinema Subject The topic of the resource Cork Film Festival, Vida Breen, Robert Shaw, Richard Lester, Capitol Cinema Description An account of the resource 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 flouncy white top over a long chevron-patterned skirt, and smiles as she steps forward towards the cinema. Behind her, we can just make out her husband, the festival director Dermot Breen with Robin O’Sullivan. A small crowd gathers around them accompanied by a photographer and a guard. Beyond them the traffic turns down towards Washington Street onto the Western Road. The Capitol Cinema was located at the junction of the Grand Parade and Washington Street. It opened in 1947 with the Bob Hope and Joan Caulfield comedy Monsieur Beaucaire (George Marshall, 1946). The cinema originally held over 1,300 patrons and at the time had one of the best operating systems in the country including a new magnetic sound system pioneered by 20th Century Fox. The sound from the speakers was so realistic that children ran out of the cinema crying when thunder broke out in the first showing of a film. It originally held a restaurant which was converted into a second screen in 1974, with seats for 105 patrons. Before long in 1989 it was converted into the city’s first multiplex with six screens. The new Capitol Cineplex was a popular cinema bringing movie blockbusters to the people of Cork until its closure in 2005 and conversion into a shopping and office block in 2017. The last film shown at the Cineplex was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell, 2005) and The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005). (John McSweeney, The Golden Age of Cork Cinemas, Rose Arch Publications, 2013.)  Robert Shaw (1927-1978) was an English actor, novelist and playwright. In 1961 he won the Hawthornden Prize, a British literary award established by the English philanthropist, Alice Warrender, for his second novel, The Sun Doctor. He had a successful television and stage career with productions on Stratford and Broadway including Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker (1961) with Donald Pleasance and Alan Bates which was reprised in the 1963 film The Caretaker directed by Clive Donner. His long list of films includes A Man for all Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966) for which he was Oscar-nominated for his role as Henry VIII. Following this he went on to have a successful film career including The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973) and Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) with Roy Scheider. Robert Shaw had ten children. His son, the actor Ian Shaw, was to portray his father in a West End play, The Shark is Broken (2020), about the beleaguered Jaws shoot directed by Guy Masterson. His grandchild, Ferdia Shaw, starred as the lead role in the Disney adaptation of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl (2020), directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Judie Dench and Colin Farrell. At the time of this picture, dated 1976, Shaw had just starred in the British-American romance and adventure film Robin and Marian (Richard Lester, 1976) alongside Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn. The director of Robin and Marian, Richard Lester, was also a visitor to the Cork Film Festival in the seventies. Shaw had a home in Tourmakeady, County Mayo, and died close by his home from a heart attack in 1978, just two years after this picture was taken, age 51. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Film Festival Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University College Cork Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1976 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Donal Sheehan Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo TIFF JPEG Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1976 Cork, Ireland Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan Relation A related resource <a href="https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/307">Director Richard Lester with Dermot Breen</a> Language A language of the resource English, eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource ©Donal Sheehan. All rights reserved. Please credit <a href="https://corkfilmfest.org/">Cork International Film Festival</a> & provide a link back to this site. Richard Lester Robert Shaw Vida Breen https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/files/original/f8f97d92037e2cf8350d137cc665d5ca.jpg 4b95e818ca7867a34a4b4001bf4ecae5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Cork Film Festival Description An account of the resource A selection of photographs from the Cork International Film Festival Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource University College Cork Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Film Festival Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University College Cork Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1956- Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956- Cork, Ireland Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo TIFF JPEG Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Please see individual items for licencing information. ©Reproduction rights CIFF Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 212 x 164mm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Director Richard Lester and Dermot Breen Subject The topic of the resource Cork Film Festival, Dermot Breen, Richard Lester, The Beatles, Helen Shapiro, Michael Pertwee, Robert Shaw Description An account of the resource This is a black and white photo of the American film director Richard Lester presenting a celebration bottle of Domecq’s cream sherry to the festival director Dermot Breen. Lester is pointing at his name which is printed on the label of the bottle. Born in 1932, Richard (aka Dick) Lester is best known for his work with The Beatles. Lester’s first short film The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959), with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, brought him to the attention of The Beatles who chose him to make A Hard Day’s Night in 1964. His earlier film, It’s Trad, Dad (1962), starred the singing sensation Helen Shapiro who came to the Cork Film Festival in 1972. Lester continued to work with the Beatles directing Help in 1965 which was a commercial success. In 1966 he directed the musical comedy film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with a screenplay by Michael Pertwee who came to the Cork Film Festival in the early seventies. Interestingly the cinematography on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was by Nicolas Roeg who went on to become one of England’s influential film directors with Don’t Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) starring David Bowie, and The Witches (1990).  Around the time of this photo, which is dated 1975, Lester had finished The Four Musketeers (1974) starring Oliver Reed and Raquel Welsh, and Royal Flash (1975) with Malcolm McDowell and Oliver Reed. In 1976 he directed the British-American romance and adventure film Robin and Marian starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn and the English actor Robert Shaw who also came to the Cork Film Festival in the early seventies. Lester's later films include the commercially successful Superman II (1980) and Superman III (1983). For his final film Lester returned to the Beatles with Get Back (1991) – a concert movie following Paul McCartney on his 1989-1990 World Tour. In 2010 Lester donated his large archive of film-related materials to the British Film Institute (BFI). The archive consisting of letters, scripts, notes, and photographs is available to the public via their Special Collections. (Mark Brown, ‘Richard Lester archive donated to BFI full of riches,’ The Guardian, 23.08.2020.) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource University College Cork, Cork Film Festival Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Cork Film Festival Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available University College Cork Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1975 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Photo TIFF JPEG Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1975 Cork, Ireland Relation A related resource <a href="https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/425">Robert Shaw and Vida Breen at the Capitol Cinema, Cork</a> Language A language of the resource English, eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a>) licence. Please credit the Cork International Film Festival Archive and provide a link back to the site. Dermot Breen Helen Shapiro Michael Pertwee Richard Lester Robert Shaw The Beatles