This still I took from the Newsreel footage of the event – I was so interested to see ‘Brigadoon’ advertised – a Show and a Film I really like, maybe because where I worked a lot of years ago, some of the girls from the Offices were in a local production of this. It was big news for us at the time – although a good few years after this film came out

The world premiere of ‘The Dam Busters’: an Associated British picture, was held at The Empire Theatre, Leicester Square… Monday, May 16th 1955

A wonderful story – about a village in Scotland that only comes to life for one day in a hundred years. Two travellers from the USA come across this village – the village of BRIGADOON – and one of the men Gene Kelly falls in love with one of the villagers Cyd Charisse but he soon realises that she will never be able to leave the village and so he must stay there forever.

Brigadoon was a Broadway musical that ran for over 12,000 performances both in the United States and England. In 1954 it was made into a movie musical starring Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, and Virginia Bosler.

As far as musicals go what made Brigadoon interesting was that the storyline was unique.

MGM decided to make the film in the studios which meant enormous studio sets of the Scottish Highlands. The film is and Colour and Cinemascope Scotland looked magnificent – as it always does !!!