Cork Film Festival 1965: Restored reels capture international stars on Leeside
Trevor Howard chats to other dignitaries at Cork Film Festival in 1965.
It could so easily have never been found. The Cork International Film Festival team moved headquarters several years ago. As she was leaving one of the offices, festival CEO Fiona Clark noticed a cupboard previously hidden behind a filing cabinet. There, she discovered a pile of film reels, which she stored in boxes.
Eventually, they found their way into the hands of Dr Ciara Chambers, head of UCC’s department of film and screen media, who, through an archivist colleague at the Irish Film Institute (IFI), confirmed that they were in possession of a rare piece of documentary footage from the Cork International Film Festival’s tenth edition, 17 minutes of celluloid gold filmed.
