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Dream Me Up Scotty!

A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.

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Released: 2013-12-23

Runtime: 59 minutes

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!

Genres

  • Documentary

Production Companies

  • BBC Scotland (GB)
  • Hopscotch Films (GB)

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Status: Released

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IMDb: tt3421898