Showing posts with label films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label films. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Oss Oss Wee Oss - Morris dancing
This extract from Alan Lomax's powerful actuality film Oss Oss Wee Oss (1953) captures Padstow, Cornwall's 'sexy, savage' May Day rites of yore.
Oss Oss Wee Oss is available on the BFI's new DVD collection, Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: A century of folk customs and ancient rural games, a double-disc set of newly remastered poetic documentaries, long-unseen television reports and rare silent film footage, exploring the enduring folk traditions of Great Britain.
Here's a Health to The Barley Mow is available to order here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0051FBKWQ
Labels:
bfi,
cornwall,
culture,
dancing,
dvd,
English Tradition,
films,
folk,
morris dance,
Pagan,
rural,
wicker man
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