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!
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Alex Norton
Crew: Berny McGurk (Editor), Chas Chalmers (Colorist), Ewan Angus (Executive Producer), Alex Cain (Sound Mixer), Marco Cervi (Additional Camera), John MacLaverty (Director)
Country: United Kingdom
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Studio: BBC Scotland, Hopscotch Films
Runtime: 59 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 23, 2013
IMDb: 10
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