Sound Recording, Cheshire

Description

Soundtrack for the film 'Soulcaking at Antrobus', made by Leeds University Television Service in 1975. Includes a complete performance of the Antrobus Soulcake play, recorded in the Wheatsheaf pub, Antrobus, followed by Gang members talking about their part in the play, its revival in 1946-1947, Youth Clubs and gangs in a number of Cheshire villages performing the play in the past, and ghosts and All Souls' Eve.


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec.

Related material

Peter Harrop's Ph.D. thesis (Leeds, 1980), 'The Performance of English Folk Plays: A Study in Dramatic Form and Social Function' ( LAVC/SRP/1/014).



Susan Pattison's M.A. dissertation (Leeds, 1975), 'The Antrobus Soul-Caking Play' ( LAVC/SRP/1/086). A tape transcript is available in the Folk Life File, at LAVC/FLF/14/4/3. Two copies of the transcript are also held in file LAVC/SRE/ARI/016.


The original 16mm film master is held at LAVC/FIL/F005.

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