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Spotlight on Wales

One in a series of ‘Spotlight on …’ films, here the beam is cast on yet another “fragment of the human jigsaw" - the National Eisteddfod at Dolgellau in 1949.

Documentary 1950 19 mins

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Overview

The Wales highlighted here by a film in the ‘Spotlight on …’ series is a Wales celebrating its language and culture at the National Eisteddfod in Dolgellau in 1949. This “fragment of the human jigsaw” offered by Rayant Pictures gives a complete and attractive picture of the week-long summer festival, with choral preparations, the arrival of scores of visitors, ceremonies and singing in the pavilion, the Crowning of the winning bard and shots of local mountain, Cader Idris.