In 1962.
Santa arrives on Dublin’s River Liffey on a Jet Ski-like thingamajig, as recorded by Gael Linn, Amharc Éireann, Ireland’s longest-running indigenous newsreel series.
Watch clip of Santa’s arrival and scenes from Dublin’s Moore Street and Henry Street during Christmas in 1962 here.
Mmf.
This afternoon.
The irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
The launch of the Irish Adverts Project with top from left: Kasandra O’Connell, Head of the IFI Irish Film Archive, Michael O’Keeffe, CEO of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and Ross Keane, Director of the IFI.
The project is the culmination of an “18-month restoration initiative” which has seen a number of 35mm film television advertisements from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s catalogued, digitised, restored and preserved.
Finally.
The adverts are now free-to-view worldwide on the IFI Player here.
Includes CIE mind control.
Rollingnews
[Jeff Daniels and Mia Farrowin The Purple Rose of Cairo]
Nisan Greenwich writes:
“Testing vintage 35mm print of Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) screening as part of Open Day – a day of FREE screenings at the IFI [Temple Bar, Dublin] on Saturday…”
