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Irish Movie Thread in History & Heritage - Spuds Camera Action

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  • 01-02-2011 3:11pm
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    CDfm
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    I hope it isn't too cheeky to post a link to History here but a couple of us in the History Thread have been dabbling in Irish movies/cinema and actors as a heritage thing as we know very little about it. It seems obvious to ask the experts.

    We know that its a bit of a wider subject than that and also that the early filmakers also did documentaries for the large Irish market in the USA.

    Anyway, here is the link.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=70397675&utm_source=notification&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=notify#post70397675

    Spuds, -Camera - ACTION - Irish Movies , Locations and Skeet.
    Judgement Day came up with the idea for this thread as an offshoot from the Green & the Greasepaint thread.

    The idea being not to discuss the merits of movies but their locations and movies as an event. The first cinema depictions were probably Royal Visits to Dublin.

    I know very little about Irish Cinema or Movies even where to look.

    I don't think we should be snobby about the entertainment industry or homespun events and if they are a bit naff by modern standards well so what -they document a period and were often done on the cheap.

    So the kick of the festivities here is a clip from the first movie ever made in Ireland " The Lad from the Auld Country" 1910

    A boy from Ireland comes to America and makes good, but he doesn't forget the poverty he left behind. He returns to rescue his sweetheart just as her family is about to be evicted from their land.

    We have been looking at it from a fan and lore point of view since one of the lads came up with some Hitchcock memorabilia (a book on birds) that he got in a jumble sale in Bray where Hitchcock went to school.

    So any fun & other stuff on filmmaking in Ireland -would be gratefully recieved.


    Thank you.
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