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Dream Me Up Scotty!

Dream Me Up Scotty!

A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.
Dec 23, 2013 59m
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Synopsis

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!

Title Dream Me Up Scotty!
Companies BBC Scotland, Hopscotch Films
Countries United Kingdom
Keywords scotland, hollywood, accents

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