HALFWAY TO PARADISE: AL JOLSON
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Title: HALFWAY TO PARADISE: AL JOLSON
Reference number: 2325
Date: 1988
Director: [d. Maureen White ]
Sponsor: [ Channel 4 Television]
Production company: [ Big Star in a Wee Picture]
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 7.46 mins
Description:
Interview with Hugh Dempster who talks about his career as a drag and mime artist. Shots of Dempster as Al Jolson in Glasgow streets. He defends his act against accusations of racism.
Film insert from Channel 4 magazine series HALFWAY TO PARADISE, transmitted Autumn 1988. Catalogued selected stories from series. Studio links, captions and stills not recorded on film but supplied by VT inserts (not acquired by Archive).
Credits:
[cam. Jan Pester]
[series p. Don Coutts, Stuart Cosgrove]
Shotlist: No credits. Interview with Hugh Dempster, Glaswegian, in his home. He talks about his career as a drag and mime artist, and as Al Jolson. General views of Dempster miming to Al Jolson music in Glasgow streets and performing for an OAP's club. Shots in house making up for the part and getting dressed. Voice-over on how he defends his act against accusations of racism (7.46).