1961 Cork Film Festival programme content
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Title
1961 Cork Film Festival programme content
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Jerzy Bossak, Charles Ford, Klaus Hebecker, John Ormond, Seán ó Briain, Fritz Lang, George Morrison, Paul Rotha, Kamal Attia, Vittorio De Sica
Description
The original 1961 programme is a soft card-bound issue measuring 20.5cm x 13.5cm. The bind is stapled and it has 40 numbered pages.
The pdf of the 1961 programme includes profiles of the film critic Jerzy Bossak, film critic Charles Ford, German film critic Klaus Hebecker, filmmaker John Ormond, and cinéaste Seán ó Briain who also worked as an assistant editor for Mise Éire. Articles include The World Laughs (p.39) and A Tribute to Fritz Lang (p.40). Programme listings include a listing for Saoirese (George Morrison, 1961) (p.5). Saoirse is the second of the trilogy of documentary films intended to give a picture of the history of Ireland. Mise Éire (George Morrison, 1959) with music composed by Seán Ó Riada, covers the final page of the 1959 programme and details the magnitude of the task in making this documentary. Programme listings also include Das Leben von Adolf Hitler (The Life of Adolf Hitler) (1961) directed by Paul Rotha who came to the festival that year; Ressalah Ailallah (Letter to God) (Kamal Attia, 1961) and the award-winning La Ciociara (Two Women) (1960), starring Sophia Loren, whose director Vittorio De Sica was a visitor to the festival in its early years. As well as programme listings the brochure includes a number of advertisements from local and national companies across all sectors of the business world.
The pdf of the 1961 programme includes profiles of the film critic Jerzy Bossak, film critic Charles Ford, German film critic Klaus Hebecker, filmmaker John Ormond, and cinéaste Seán ó Briain who also worked as an assistant editor for Mise Éire. Articles include The World Laughs (p.39) and A Tribute to Fritz Lang (p.40). Programme listings include a listing for Saoirese (George Morrison, 1961) (p.5). Saoirse is the second of the trilogy of documentary films intended to give a picture of the history of Ireland. Mise Éire (George Morrison, 1959) with music composed by Seán Ó Riada, covers the final page of the 1959 programme and details the magnitude of the task in making this documentary. Programme listings also include Das Leben von Adolf Hitler (The Life of Adolf Hitler) (1961) directed by Paul Rotha who came to the festival that year; Ressalah Ailallah (Letter to God) (Kamal Attia, 1961) and the award-winning La Ciociara (Two Women) (1960), starring Sophia Loren, whose director Vittorio De Sica was a visitor to the festival in its early years. As well as programme listings the brochure includes a number of advertisements from local and national companies across all sectors of the business world.
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, D & A O’Leary Ltd.
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Date
1961
Contributor
Cork Film Festival, Dermot Breen, Gus Healy, Richard Beamish, Dan Donovan, S Fitzgerald, Lord Mayor, Anthony Barry, Aloys Fleischmann, Robert Breathnach
Rights
This item is licenced with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) licence. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.
Format
Paper, 20.5cm x 13.4cm
PDF
Language
English, eng; Irish, gle
Coverage
start=1961-09-27; end=1961-10-04;
Cork, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Programme
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, D & A O’Leary Ltd., “1961 Cork Film Festival programme content,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 21, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/623.