Louis Marcus with award
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Title
Louis Marcus with award
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Pearse Wyse, Louis Marcus, Peter Barry, Gus Healy, Award, Lord Mayor
Description
This is a black and white photo of the Irish director Louis Marcus holding the Waterford Glass Film Critics’ Award in the company of the politicians Pearse Wyse, Peter Barry, and Gus Healy. The four men are all wearing dinner suits accessorised with a bow tie and some decorated with a festival ribbon.
We see from the archive that Marcus was presented the Waterford Crystal Award in 1975, for the best Irish film, by Miss Movie Girl Mary Tilson which helps us date this photo. The award was made by the film critics attending the festival and was aimed at encouraging Irish film making and also Government and industrial sponsorship of film making in Ireland. Marcus was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1974 for Children at Work (Páisti ag Obair), and in 1976 he was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 48th Academy Awards for Conquest of Light. Conquest of Light detailed how Waterford Glass is made with an emphasis on the aesthetic nature of the process. His first documentary, The Silent Art (1958), on his friend the Cork-born sculptor, Seamus Murphy (1907-1975), was shown at the Cork Film Festival in 1959 - the same year that Mise Eire (Seoirse Mac Giolla Mhuire) premiered.
Marcus often sat on the festival jury, and the 1979 film festival programme notes that Marcus, a member of the shorts jury that year, was “prominent in the efforts to get Government support for Irish film making, so far largely without success.”
Pearse Wyse (1928-2009), at the left of the photo, was a Fianna Fáil politician who would serve as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1967 and again in 1974. A firm supporter of Jack Lynch he was a formidable opponent of Charles Haughey and was a member of the so-called ‘Gang of 22’. Disillusioned with Fianna Fáil he went on to found the Progressive Democrats where he held a seat as a TD in the 1987 and 1989 elections.
We see from the archive that Marcus was presented the Waterford Crystal Award in 1975, for the best Irish film, by Miss Movie Girl Mary Tilson which helps us date this photo. The award was made by the film critics attending the festival and was aimed at encouraging Irish film making and also Government and industrial sponsorship of film making in Ireland. Marcus was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1974 for Children at Work (Páisti ag Obair), and in 1976 he was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 48th Academy Awards for Conquest of Light. Conquest of Light detailed how Waterford Glass is made with an emphasis on the aesthetic nature of the process. His first documentary, The Silent Art (1958), on his friend the Cork-born sculptor, Seamus Murphy (1907-1975), was shown at the Cork Film Festival in 1959 - the same year that Mise Eire (Seoirse Mac Giolla Mhuire) premiered.
Marcus often sat on the festival jury, and the 1979 film festival programme notes that Marcus, a member of the shorts jury that year, was “prominent in the efforts to get Government support for Irish film making, so far largely without success.”
Pearse Wyse (1928-2009), at the left of the photo, was a Fianna Fáil politician who would serve as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1967 and again in 1974. A firm supporter of Jack Lynch he was a formidable opponent of Charles Haughey and was a member of the so-called ‘Gang of 22’. Disillusioned with Fianna Fáil he went on to found the Progressive Democrats where he held a seat as a TD in the 1987 and 1989 elections.
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Bateman Photography
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Date
1970
Contributor
Bateman Photography
Rights
©Bateman Photography. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.
Format
Photo
TIFF
JPEG
TIFF
JPEG
Language
English, eng
Coverage
1970
Cork, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photo
Physical Dimensions
241 x 193mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Bateman Photography, “Louis Marcus with award,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 21, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/580.