Synopsis
1927 film footage of a pageant for the First Delphic Festival. Directed by Dimitris Gaziadis. Produced by Angelos Sikelianos & Eva Palmer. He received it from his mother, Mary Creety Beery, former Hambidge Center director at Rabun Gap, Georgia. The film is a record of the athletic events and dramatizations performed at the ancient stadium at the base of Mt. Parnassus at the same 1927 Delfic festival. The entire event was presented in honor of George Cram Cook (1873 – 1924) American theater producer, playwright, novelist, poet, and university professor who lived in Greece for many years. George Nikas and I finished this project in 2013. Film score added by George Nikas includes clips from Rembetika songs and Kostas Mountakis traditional lyra music of Crete.
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Details
- Running time
- 9 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- restored film
- Greek athletic games
- ancient Greece
