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Title: ORPHEUS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

Reference number: 4715

Date: 1984

Director: d. Mark Littlewood

Sponsor: Channel Four Television

Production company: Pelicula Film

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 35.12 mins

Description: The story of Orpheus through the mediums of myth, song, drama and poetry.

Credits: players. Jennifer Black, Robin Cameron, Vincent Friell & Tamara Kennedy.
nar. Maureen Beattie
excerpt from Monteverdi's Orfeo performed by The Scottish Early Music Consort director Warwick Edwards
animated sequence Lesley Keen
m. Lyell Cresswell
spec. FX & rostrum camera Donald Holwill
written & researched Jan Culik
p. ass. Eric Coulter
sd. rec. Colin Nicolson
ed. Bert Eeles
ass. ed. Neil Castell
ph. Mark Littlewood

Shotlist: Title (1.07); man talking to camera (2.39); The Creation Myth (7.38); Orpheus in the Middle Ages (13.01); Orpheus in Music (24.48); Orpheus in the 20th Century Drama and Film (35.12).