Film of The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Here’s a special request I received from a film company in Ireland.
They’ve already made an excellent award-winning film on Liam Clancy and are now seeking any old cinefilm footage people may have of the boys, especially from the early 1960s, for a feature version.
The world of traditional Irish music and song lost Tommy Makem this year, and so films like this, which gather together material of a world that was, become increasingly important.
Here are the details from Anna Rodgers:
Dear all fans of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem,
In 2006 we made a 2 part TV version of a film called “The Legend of Liam Clancy” for Irish television which won best documentary series this year in the IFTAS (Irish awards). We are now making a feature version, which will be later available on DVD, with lots of exciting clips and extras.
Tommy Makem did a wonderful interview in this in the summer of 2005, and we have some great clips from Liam’s archive of Tommy and Liam together in Canada. The film contains rare unseen footage of the band, and also interviews and performances with people such as Odetta, Pete Seeger, Shane Mc Gowan, and others.
I would like to put it out there to all fans, that we were still looking for footage. If anybody has old cine footage of the band, especially from circa 1960s or so, we would be delighted to hear from you. Perhaps you have old reels somewhere in your attic which you never telecined. We would be happy to do this for you and to negotiate access to your footage. We’d be very grateful of any assistance. One of the aims of a definitive documentary of this nature is to gather together any material that is out there, especially if it hasn’t yet been seen or published.
Likewise, we would be interested in any photographs or clippings you might have from the early days of the band.
Please contact me on annadirect@gmail.com
The company is Crossing the Line Films in Ireland.
www.ctlfilms.com
See Related:
• Clancy Brothers: The Men Behind the Sweaters
• Tommy Makem: In Videos
• Liam Clancy or Luke Kelly?
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