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Title: TAM O'SHANTER RIDES AGAIN

Reference number: 3297

Date: 1978

Director: [film maker Tom Steel, Scotland]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 12.25 mins

Description: Puppet animation of the Robert Burns poem Tam O'Shanter.

Please note the film preserved at the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive is mute, as deposited. [Original film made with sound on stripe]

Winner of the Humphrey Jennings Trophy for best animation film at the 40th Scottish International Amateur Film Festival. See also ref. 0458

Labelled on original can 'Watson Black, 'Loudon', Shore Road Ballantrae, Girvan. We have deduced from this information that the puppets featured in this film were in fact the 'Carrick Marionettes', made by Watson Black. The puppets were bequeathed to the City of Glasgow.

Credits: [featuring the Carrick Marionettes]

Shotlist: title; Puppet animation of the Robert Burns poem Tam O'Shanter (12.25)