I heard aboot this via Mike Scott of the Waterboys.....he did a guest DJ slot on RTE in 2010...He told us aboot Brittish Sea Power and the film they put music to he played No Man Is An archipelago....He said make sure you get the one with the DVD... it's brilliant !.....He's right....!!!
Concerning the storm scene at the end, (from 1:06:30) Flaherty later felt guilty for encouraging the fishermen to take too much risk for the sake of his documentary. The documentary is largely staged, but the danger was real, fishermen would not normally go out on a day like that on a tiny currach.
@@binghamguevara6814 He's not wrong. My family go out fishing in currachs (not very common any more) and they'd rather scale the Cliffs of Moher than tempt the fate of the waves in a storm in a currach.
@@commane21 Dear Stephen, Thank you for your insight! I’m working right now on the “Riders to The Sea” in a theatre in my University and it’s highly important to me make an investigation into the reality of the people who still live there. Unfortunately, I don’t have any friends, neither from there, nor from Irland in general. But I try my best, to fill this gap with a help of internet! I apologize for bean intrusive, but maybe there is a chance to make with you some connection per email…? I would be extremely glad to ask couple of questions which appeared in my head while watching materials about island and reading the novel of Synge dedicated to this place. Sincerely, Paul
I’m assuming anyone seeing this upload of the original Gainsborough Film Co doco has also seen how British Sea Power, the English band (from Brighton?), supplied the music score for a version of this film shown on tele - was it BBC4? - several years ago. Searching British Sea Power ‘Men of Aran’ will get you edited clips, with their music, here on YT.
Welcome to all the people who've made it here trying to solve "The Riddle"! You've found one piece of the puzzle. Listen to the melody of the music around 0.19 and 0.50 seconds; is this where some of the chord progressions came from? I have two more parts of the puzzle so far. The first is quite obvious- "The Call of the Wild" is a Book by Jack London. The second is more obscure; it is a quote attributed to Mark Twain. "A Gold Mine is a Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the top" which could link to "Seasons of gasoline and Gold" Also, look closer at the Music Video; there are multiple meanings suggested between lyric and image. When he sings "Nights in the Scullery" he passes a Skull and a chess peice, which though is a bishop, implies "Knight". So now you have "Knights in the Skullery" . P.S- The set for the Music video was created by Storm Thorgerson, the artist behind "Dark Side of the Moon" amongst other things.
it's a 'documentary'. The old version had the dialogue turned way down, you couldn't really make out the words They seem to have tried to 'reclaim' it or something for this edition which kinda ruins it becauses it was envisioned as a silent film. I have the old version on VHS which I grabbed of the tele back in the nineties in Australia. Probably degraded now.
Thanks !!! One of the most important documentaries in the cinema history . I can wach it again here with great pleasure . Love it .
well, yeah, kind of... more of a 'documentary', but yeah, I love it too.
ummm actually this is not a documentary, but docufiction🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝
R.I.P poor basking shark.
thank you for sharing.
Masterpiece
Rte one documentary just aired a great podcast about the soundtrack. Great stories about the film and its cast
Havin a bad day... Watch this... These lovely people are soooo happy...
😊
they're cold scared and eat potatoes. Where's the happy?
I heard aboot this via Mike Scott of the Waterboys.....he did a guest DJ slot on RTE in 2010...He told us aboot Brittish Sea Power and the film they put music to he played No Man Is An archipelago....He said make sure you get the one with the DVD... it's brilliant !.....He's right....!!!
I watched this in about 1995. Found it so fascinating
33:30 is where they begin hunting the Basking Sharks.
arrivé ici par lecture de Journal d'Aran, de Nicolas Bouvier
Such amazing and vintage 😍
I went to inisherin last week. It was a very interesting place to visit.
That's not a place
@@aaronuaconaill5688 it is.
Inish oirr ? There is no inisherin
Concerning the storm scene at the end, (from 1:06:30) Flaherty later felt guilty for encouraging the fishermen to take too much risk for the sake of his documentary. The documentary is largely staged, but the danger was real, fishermen would not normally go out on a day like that on a tiny currach.
thanks for your comment. Can I ask you what your source is for that information? Did you read it in a book?
@@binghamguevara6814 He's not wrong. My family go out fishing in currachs (not very common any more) and they'd rather scale the Cliffs of Moher than tempt the fate of the waves in a storm in a currach.
@@commane21 Dear Stephen,
Thank you for your insight! I’m working right now on the “Riders to The Sea” in a theatre in my University and it’s highly important to me make an investigation into the reality of the people who still live there. Unfortunately, I don’t have any friends, neither from there, nor from Irland in general. But I try my best, to fill this gap with a help of internet!
I apologize for bean intrusive, but maybe there is a chance to make with you some connection per email…? I would be extremely glad to ask couple of questions which appeared in my head while watching materials about island and reading the novel of Synge dedicated to this place.
Sincerely,
Paul
@@binghamguevara6814 there's a wikipedia article about it that has lots of sources you can check.
I read about this in a Martin McDonagh play, and wondered if it was a real film or fictional.
Speaking of Martin, we just watched The Banshees of Inisherin and of course, it was amazing. Colin and Brendan together again was so great.
What mcdonagh play was this mentioned in.
@@ludwigwittgenstein2422 The Cripple of Inishmaan
I’m assuming anyone seeing this upload of the original Gainsborough Film Co doco has also seen how British Sea Power, the English band (from Brighton?), supplied the music score for a version of this film shown on tele - was it BBC4? - several years ago. Searching British Sea Power ‘Men of Aran’ will get you edited clips, with their music, here on YT.
Welcome to all the people who've made it here trying to solve "The Riddle"! You've found one piece of the puzzle. Listen to the melody of the music around 0.19 and 0.50 seconds; is this where some of the chord progressions came from?
I have two more parts of the puzzle so far. The first is quite obvious- "The Call of the Wild" is a Book by Jack London. The second is more obscure; it is a quote attributed to Mark Twain. "A Gold Mine is a Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the top" which could link to "Seasons of gasoline and Gold"
Also, look closer at the Music Video; there are multiple meanings suggested between lyric and image. When he sings "Nights in the Scullery" he passes a Skull and a chess peice, which though is a bishop, implies "Knight". So now you have "Knights in the Skullery" .
P.S- The set for the Music video was created by Storm Thorgerson, the artist behind "Dark Side of the Moon" amongst other things.
Does anyone know why the dialogue is not subtitled?
the dialogue is for atmosphere, it's voice over and not particularly important. You can make out most of it with the ears as well.
It was made as a silent film with no dialogue.
I doubt that they were speaking english, in reality, and why not have local music.
still interesting.
it's a 'documentary'. The old version had the dialogue turned way down, you couldn't really make out the words They seem to have tried to 'reclaim' it or something for this edition which kinda ruins it becauses it was envisioned as a silent film. I have the old version on VHS which I grabbed of the tele back in the nineties in Australia. Probably degraded now.
Aran et rita
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