Dream Me Up Scotty!

Dec 23, 2013

0h 59m

★ 0.0

A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.

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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Documentary

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BBC Scotland

Hopscotch Films

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Alex Norton

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Dream Me Up Scotty!

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