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Dream Me Up Scotty!

(2013)

Overview

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!

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Original TitleDream Me Up Scotty!

Status Released

Release Information

  • 2013-12-23

Original Language

Runtime 00h 59m

Production CompaniesBBC Scotland,Hopscotch Films

Genres

  • Documentary