| MIDSUMMER DANCE FESTIVAL Bizarre re-enactment of midsummer druidic ceremony. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5348 |
| Catalog #: | 279117 | |
| Clip Number: | 279117-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1321 | |
| Timecode: | 01:25:03 - 01:26:53 | |
| Location: | Ireland | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/DANCE: Folk Dance FASHION: Historical (Pre 1900) HISTORICAL RECREATIONS: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Ireland (Eire) | |
| Description: | Midsummer Dance Festival of the pre-Christian Era by Madame Bannard Cogley and her friends. Ireland M/S of group of men and women in Roman-style togas and tunics doing square dancing on a lawn. C/U of two men in tunics; one plays violin, other plays bagpipe type instrument. M/S of the piper leading a procession across the lawn. The women hold branches of trees, some of the men are dressed as warriors with spears and helmets. A man in a white robe - a druid? - presents crown and sceptre to one of the warriors. The women dance around them in a circle. The group then all skip off in to nearby woodland. Quirky re-enactment of druidic ceremony, sanitised for twentieth century toffs! | |
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