Oss tales / directed by John M. Bishop, Sabrina Magliocco, Peter Douglas Kennedy, George Pickow and Alan Lomax.

Format Video (Streaming)
Publication InfoWatertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1953-2007.
Description1 online resource (68 min.).
Supplemental ContentAbout the Oss films
Supplemental ContentOss oss wee oss redux: Beltane in Berkeley
Supplemental ContentOss oss wee oss
Supplemental ContentOss tales
Subjects

Other author/creatorBishop, John, 1665-1737 director.
Other author/creatorMagliocco, Sabrina, director.
Other author/creatorLomax, Alan, 1915-2002 director.
Other author/creatorKennedy, Peter, 1922-2006, director.
Other author/creatorPickow, George, director.
Contents Oss tales -- Oss oss wee oss -- Oss oss wee oss redux : Beltane in Berkeley -- About the Oss films.
Abstract Oss Tales: Padstow, a town on the north coast of Cornwall, celebrates May Day with a unique custom: two hobby horses, or osses dance through the town streets, accompanied by drums and accordians. All Padstownians participate in this exciting event, which has now become a tourist attraction, drawing over 30,000 visitors the first of May to this fishing town of 3000. Folklorists Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy visited Padstow in 1951, producing a film called Oss Oss Wee Oss (1953). In 2004, filmmaker John Bishop and folklorist Sabina Magliocco (with Jaynie Ali Aydin and Noah Bishop) returned to Padstow to see how the custom was faring fifty years later.
Abstract Oss Oss Wee Oss: Padstow, a town on the north coast of Cornwall, celebrates May Day with a unique custom: two hobby horses, or osses dance through the town streets, accompanied by drums and accordions. All Padstownians participate in this exciting event, which has now become a tourist attraction, drawing over 30,000 visitors the first of May to this fishing town of 3000. Folklorists Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy visited Padstow in 1951, producing a film called Oss Oss Wee Oss (1953).
Abstract Oss Oss Wee Oss Redux: Beltane in Berkeley: A portrait of a contemporary pagan group in Berkeley, California that yearly re-enacts the custom of the hobby horse as part of its May Day revelries.
Abstract About the Oss Films: George Pickow and Peter Kennedy talk about making the 1953 film and John Bishop and Sabina Magliocco speak about making this video.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014).
Other formsPreviously released as DVD.
LanguageThis edition in English.
Genre/formDocumentary films.

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