7 Degrees West - Tinsmith and Coppersmith in Derrinraw

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7 Degrees West - Tinsmith and Coppersmith in Derrinraw

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Details

Location

Annaghmore, Derrinraw

Year

1969

Date

Production 10/01/1969

Length

08min 17sec

Audio

sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Roving reporter Charlie Witherspoon headed to the townland of Derrinraw, near Annaghmore, for this report on the activity going on in what looked like a ramshackle and rundown building. Here he met James O’Neill who was making a living as a tinsmith, creating all many of household objects. His son, Eddie, also worked metal on the same premises, but he was a coppersmith and instead of practical objects he was making objects for artistic exhibition.

This report was shot for a series called 7 Degrees West, a kind of early forerunner of Lesser Spotted Ulster, which saw features on old traditions and off-the-beaten-track places. Although the complete programmes, which included studio material, have gone from the archives, a number of these filmed location shoots featuring Charlie on his bike have survived. Look out for others in the Digital Film Archive.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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