Amateur footage shot by Doug Collender of a Tyne Tees Television film crew attending the fifth Teesside International Eisteddfod taking place on the Prissock School Base in Middlesbrough in July 1974. The film features Canadian born reporter Charlotte Allen signing autographs and conducting interviews as well as a number of performances by international folk groups. Some of the footage recorded by this film crew would go onto become and edition of the programme About Britain entitled ‘The...

Amateur footage shot by Doug Collender of a Tyne Tees Television film crew attending the fifth Teesside International Eisteddfod taking place on the Prissock School Base in Middlesbrough in July 1974. The film features Canadian born reporter Charlotte Allen signing autographs and conducting interviews as well as a number of performances by international folk groups. Some of the footage recorded by this film crew would go onto become and edition of the programme About Britain entitled ‘The World Comes to Teesside’ transmitted 1st October 1974. On a stage a folk group in red and white costumes perform a routine for a watching crowd, the women dancers hold garlands over their heads and at the side of the stage a small musical group provides the accompaniment. One of the male dancers is held in the air by the others, he waves two swords. The routine ends and the crowd applaud. Near a marquee a young man puts on a jacket, beside him next to a wooden shed a couple are talking. Another man and woman talk as they walk past a television outside broadcast lorry, another couple walk across a field towards the marquee, he has his arm around her shoulder. On the stage a cameraman adjusts his camera set up, in the background a banner with the Tyne Tees Television logo. A chalkboard television slate dated 29th July 1974, the name of the production ‘Romanian Dancers’. Inside the marque large television lights hang down from above, around the tent a display of flowers and a television monitor. Parked outside a Tyne Tees Television estate car. A Tyne Tees Television camera and cameraman are raised in the air on a platform. A second cameramen look down the lenses of his camera. Two men stand at the edge of the stage adjusting a microphone. Beside the stage a man and woman use cinecameras to record another group of folk dancers performing on the stage. Television cameras also capture the scene as well as a music group seated at the back of the stage. The performance is watched by both a seated and standing crowd. The performance ends and the stage is empty again ready for the next performance. A number of amateur filmmaker continue to film the scene. Nearby the dancers stand chatting, one man is signing an autograph. Tyne Tees Television reporter Charlotte Allen is also asked for an autograph by a young woman, she obliges. Two men walk around the stage talking, nearby a group of men two of whom smile and wave at the camera. A large crowd gathers around the stage as a compare speaks to them through a microphone. A group of female dancers begins to perform accompanied by a number of men and boys playing accordions and trumpets. A man with a goatee-beard and dark glasses watches on, he points of stage. The performance comes to an end and a man taking photographs. Charlotte Allen interviews a number of female dancers, a man wearing a flat cap walks past camera. The Tyne Tees Television banner next to the stage. General views of a number of young male and female performers standing next to the marquee. On stage Charlotte Allen is being filmed doing an interview with the compare seen previous. Some of the dancers sit around near the stage chatting. On stage another group of dancers begins to perform, standing beside them drummers and musicians. A crowd watches on, a man takes a photograph. A man in dress-uniform sits astride a horse, a large feather in his helmet. The first group of dancers dressed in red and white walk past and stand chatting together, they gather in several large swords. A cameraman on a raised platform recording the scene, a man wearing an Oktoberfest hat covered in badges and buttons speaks with someone off camera. Beside the marquee Charlotte Allen interviews another female dancer recorded by a Tyne Tee Television camera.