28/02/07 Wednesday Lecture
In today's lecture, we talked about documentary in Ireland. Irish goverment sponsored Irish documentaries through National Film Institute. In 1946, goverment sponsored historical documentary A Nation Once Again. It proofs Irish's goverment's belief in power of documentary film. Then we looked at Mise Eire, pruduced by Gael Linn in 1959. It contains archive footage and deals with the period of 1896-1918 in Irish history. Then we looked Rocky Road to Dublin, directed by Peter Lennon in 1968. This film looks at the state of the church in Ireland. It filmed in the style of the French New wave.