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This is a black and white photo of the film producer Greg Smith standing with Tom Nicholas, festival director Dermot Breen, and the actor Lynda Bellingham. Breen and Bellingham are facing the camera smiling, while Nicholas and Smith are in…

This is a black and white undated image of a festival trophy. The silver-plated single-column trophy is engraved with the Cork coat of arms on the front. The award is topped with a film reel with film ribbon looped around its core and the film ribbon…

This is a black and white photo of the Russian film composer Dimitri Tiomkin with his wife, Olivia Tiomkin, and two others including festival director Dermot Breen. They are attending a press reception at the Café Royal in London, for the Soviet…

This is a black and white photo of festival staff, dressed in film festival promotional sweatshirts, on the roof of the Cork Opera House. They are posing amidst the roof-top detritus of abandoned steel poles and advertising hoarding while below them…

This is a black and white photo of eight programme sellers, identified at the back of the photo as the 'first programme sellers'. The young women are dressed in above-the-knee dresses and low-heeled court shoes. They stand together in a…

This is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor of Cork Seán O'Leary reading from the pulpit of St. Francis Church on Liberty Street in Cork. Seán O'Leary (1941-2006) was an Irish accountant, barrister, judge and Fine Gael politician who served as…

This is a black and white photo of Joseph Tomelty, the Irish character actor, novelist and playwright, reading from the pulpit of St. Francis' Church on Liberty Street in Cork. Joseph Tomelty (1911-1995) was a cultural tour de force from the North of…

This is an undated black and white photo of the congregation at a film festival mass in St Francis Church, Cork. The pews are full and those without seats stand up against the church walls. We notice the Lord Mayor Seán O’Leary kneeling at the…

This is an undated black and white photo of the congregation at the festival's annual mass. The pews are full and at the back of the Church, by the stained glass doors, we can just about make out the crowds standing by the open doors of the Church.…

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…