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Title: CALUM NOAH: The Very First Sword Dance

Reference number: 7951

Date: 2007

Director: d. Catriona Black

Sponsor: Scottish Screen, BBC Alba and Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig

Producer: Catriona Black

Production company: Am Bocsa

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 5.07 mins

Description: Where, when and by whom was the highland sword dance first invented? We think it was danced by Noah's son Calum, when the Ark hit dry land. Calum Noah takes a playful look at the origins of the sword dance, telling a long-forgotten tale from the Isle of Skye.

30 second clip can be viewed on Am Bocsa website at http://www.ambocsa.co.uk/engCNsure.html [last accessed 15/2/2010]

Credits: animat. and ed. Catriona Black
sc. d. and producer of voices Mairead Ross
adapted from a traditional Gaelic story told in 1953 by Hugh MacRae
voices John Carmichael, Mairi Morrison, Anne Sinclair
m. composed and performed by Simon Thoumire
also performed by Claire McLaughlin, Kevin MacKenzie
m. rec. David Gray, Soundcafe
dubbing ed. Jordan Killiard, Canongate Studios
transfer to Digibeta Quadrille

Thanks to Dr. Cathlin MacAulay School of Scottish Studies Archives, Margaret Cameraon, David Hutchison, Julian Silverstein, Ronald, Mairie and Anna Black

exec. p. for BBC Ishbel MacLennan
exec. p. for Scottish Screen Becky Lloyd, Julia Caithness

transfer to film Molinare
© Am Bocsa Ltd. 2007. www.ambocsa.com

Shotlist: Where, when and by whom was the highland sword dance first invented? We think it was danced by Noah's son Calum, when the Ark hit dry land. Calum Noah takes a playful look at the origins of the sword dance, telling a long-forgotten tale from the Isle of Skye.

Animator Catrìona Black takes up her virtual paintbrush to create a watery world of colour and magic. The music is composed and performed by award-winning concertina player, Simon Thoumire, and the script is by Mairead Ross from Skye.

[synopsis from Am Bocsa website at http://www.ambocsa.co.uk/enggc.html, last accessed 24/4/2009]