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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 8 mins
Subject: ARTS / CULTURE TRAVEL
Summary This amateur film captures Brittany's annual inter-Celtic folklore festival in 1960. The filmmaker captures the festival held on Treboul Beach, featuring brass band performances, highland bagpipers and traditional folk dancing.
Description
This amateur film captures Brittany's annual inter-Celtic folklore festival in 1960. The filmmaker captures the festival held on Treboul Beach, featuring brass band performances, highland bagpipers and traditional folk dancing.
The film opens at on a busy dock with shots capturing a long line of stationary traffic waiting to board a ferry. Shots then show a mini being hoisted onto a ferry by a crane and lowered into the cargo hold below.
A French policeman directs traffic on a busy...
This amateur film captures Brittany's annual inter-Celtic folklore festival in 1960. The filmmaker captures the festival held on Treboul Beach, featuring brass band performances, highland bagpipers and traditional folk dancing.
The film opens at on a busy dock with shots capturing a long line of stationary traffic waiting to board a ferry. Shots then show a mini being hoisted onto a ferry by a crane and lowered into the cargo hold below.
A French policeman directs traffic on a busy street in Brittany, before views of show a popular beach where the festival is being held. Panning shots illustrate the festival site; visitors gather on the sandy banks along with performers, and a stage, where a woman in ceremonial regalia speaks into a microphone, is positioned by the water's edge.
Title - 'Folklore of Brittany Treboul August 1963'
Expansive views then show the stage from a distance surrounded by a large crowd, and this is followed by the filmmaker getting more detailed shots of people enjoying the festivities. A group of boys in naval uniforms take to the stage and give a brass band performance, while in the background sail boats can be seen idling along the coast.
There is then a performance by some bagpipers in typical highland costume with kilts. The camera then shows groups of people relaxing on the grass in various folk costumes. Two young men do a jig on a grassy area. The final sequence shows a folk dance that has both men and women dancing in formation around the stage together.
Title - The end.