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Title: Ceilidh, Barra

Reference number: 21185

Date: 1978, February

Sponsor: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar; Scottish Film Council; Gulbenkian Foundation; Highlands and Islands Development Board

Production company: Cinema Sgire Project

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 23.30 mins

Description: Barra community social gathering and Gaelic song.

This video was digitised with support from Bòrd na Gàidhlig and The Gaelic Language Promotion Trust.

The Cinema Sgìre Project was a community project set up by Comhairle nan Eilean in 1977 - 1981 and was largely supported by the Scottish Film Council (a forerunner of the Moving Image Archive), the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Highlands and Islands Development Board. The Project operated throughout the Uists and Barra. In addition to the operation of a mobile cinema the Project also recorded everyday life in the islands.

Cinema Sgire was a community project using early video technology. Any inherent defects such as signal loss, drop-out, visual / audio disturbances, interruptions or incompleteness will be present in the recording.

Shotlist: Interior shots of group and individual Gaelic singers seated in a room with drinks. Songs include 'Nan Tilleadh tu Idir'; Soraidh Leis a' Bhreacan Ùr'; 'Gruagach Òg an Fhuilt Bhàn'; 'Fàgail Ghlaschu';'Nuair Bha mi Òg'; Bagpipes play 'The Devil in the Kitchen' for someone dancing the Highalnd Fling. Tune on the whistle. A couple of minutes towards the end Mike Russell is heard instructing how to the camera. Returns to the group singing 'Mo Shùil ad Dhèidh' in Gaelic.