Launched in 2000, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive spans from 1897 to the present day and currently contains an ever-expanding catalogue of 13,000 items. It comprises material from a variety of depositors including feature films, sport, documentaries, animation, amateur footage, light entertainment, and a significant proportion of broadcast material from the UTV Archive.
Gerry Meets... Maureen O'Hara
The actress speaks about the Golden Age of Hollywood and filming The Quiet Man.
Gerry Kelly interviews Maureen O'Hara at Ashford Castle, Co. Mayo where much of the filming for The Quiet Man took place.
O'Hara talks about her early theatre career, her naivety at the beginning of her time in Hollywood, and what it was like to work with John Wayne and notorious director John Ford. She speaks about some of the leading men she has worked with and remains tight-lipped about what she infamously whispered to John Wayne at the end of The Quiet Man.
Known for her natural red hair, Dublin-born Maureen O'Hara became a successful Hollywood actress from the 1940s-1960s, often playing the heroine in Westerns. She starred alongside John Wayne in the 1952 romantic comedy The Quiet Man, for which John Ford won an Oscar for Best Director.
Get inside the movies with these illuminating insights from the people who make them.
The movies can make us believe in magic, but what they really serve up is illusion: pull back the curtain and what's revealed is a vast enterprise of imagination, skill and invention. When it comes to feature films, a director may preside over a legion of hundreds of actors, artists and technicians.
To outsiders - that's most of us - this complex world can seem mystifying and impenetrable. So an insider's perspective is worth its weight in gold, as these rare interviews and talks by filmmakers and performers show.
