(Dream Me Up Scotty!)

Content: Alex Norton discovers how showbusiness has handled the portrayal of the Scottish accent. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood's golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad!

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

59 minutes

Year:

2013

Directors:

John MacLaverty

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Production companies:

BBC Scotland,

Hopscotch Films

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Sound Mixer

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