{"id":893,"date":"2007-06-15T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2007-06-15T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T14:39:00","slug":"the-wee-oss-in-cornwall-and-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"The Wee ‘Oss in Cornwall and California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folklorist Alan Lomax’s 1953 film of the Padstow, Cornwall, May Day festival, Oss Oss, Wee Oss!<\/em> is now available on DVD<\/a>, together with the Pagan hobby horse procession from Berkeley, California, and an updated film from Padstow in 2007.<\/p>\n

Order before July 3 for free shipping.<\/p>\n

You can also see small video clips from the original 1953 documentaryon the Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A nice touch: the two-sided DVD has both NTSC and PAL formats, so it can be watched anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Folklorist Alan Lomax’s 1953 film of the Padstow, Cornwall, May Day festival, Oss Oss, Wee Oss! is now available on DVD, together with the Pagan hobby horse procession from Berkeley, California, and an updated film from Padstow in 2007. Order before July 3 for free shipping. 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