Description
| Title | The Tocher |
|---|---|
| Duration | 4 mins 52 secs |
| Date | 1938 |
| Collection | Royal Mail Film Classics |
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Description
An animated silhouette film by the innovator of the technique, Lotte Reiniger, to promote the Post Office Savings Bank. A simple Scottish fairy tale of thwarted love, which ends happily when an arranged marriage is narrowly avoided by the suitor presenting a dowry in the form of a Post Office Savings book. Tocher is the Scots word for dowry.Credits
Animation: Lotte Reiniger Rossini themes arranged by Benjamin Britten The Folk: Angus; Rhona; The Laird, her father; her kinsmen; and [last credit obscured by timecode]
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