TAM O'SHANTER RIDES AGAIN
Full length video
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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)