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Title: DOWN-HOME: Cape Breton And Quebec

Reference number: 4722

Date: 1985

Director: d. Mike Alexander

Sponsor: Channel 4 Television

Production company: Pelicula Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 52 mins

Description: Aly Bain presents the music of Quebec French-Canadian fiddler Jean Carignan, and the musicians Bottines Souriantes, Denis Lanctot, Denis Pepin, Gilles Losier

Credits: Cape Breton musicians Carl Mackenzie, Jerry Holland, Buddy Macmaster, Kyle MacNeil, Wilfred Prosper, Lee Cremo.
Quebec Musicians Jean Carignan, Bottines Souriantes, Denis Lanctot, Denis Pepin, Gilles Losier
dancers Gina Gilchrist, Joe Rankin, Warner sisters
acknowledgements piano accompanists, Shelmar productions, St. Anne's Gaelic College, Gaelic Society of Cape Breton, Auberge Hollandaise
sc. Douglas Eadie
nar. Maureen Beattie
p. Darryl Collins
gaffer Alex Mackenzie
ass. cameraman Norrie Halley
ass. ed. Ian Adams
ph. Michael Coulter, Martin Singleton
rostrum Camera Donald Holwill
ed. Foina MacDonald
sd. ed Neil astell
anim. Lesley Keen
p. Mike Alexander and Douglas Eadie

Shotlist: REEL I
Down-home. Cape Breton and Quebec (1.14) Cape Breton landscape; Aly Bain playing with and interviewing Cape Breton fiddlers (see credits above) (5.14) Cape Breton tap dancers in action to fiddle tunes (7.44) Aly Bain ivs Buddy MacMaster (10.02) Cape Breton landscape; men sing a traditional Gaelic song; Kyle MacNeil plays fiddle; Aly Bain ivs Lee Cremo. He plays fiddle (25.00) Jerry Holland plays fiddle tune (28.42)

REEL II
Many shots of folk sessions in bars. Some Quebec and Montreal street scenes. Aly Bain ivs Jean Carignan (20.56) ecs (22.27)