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Title: STORNOWAY

Reference number: 0550

Date: 1950c

Director: filmed by Frank M. Marshall

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3 mins

Description: The town and harbour of Stornoway with shots of trawlers at work, new houses being built and of the standing stones at Callanish.

Credits: Films of Scotland series

Shotlist: Credits (.06); General shots of town and harbour. Shot of Stornoway castle. Crew on decks of trawlers at work unloading fish (1.23); New houses are built for immediate needs and added to as required. Shot of a new house and a blackhouse side by side. General shots of various new houses (1.41); The standing stones at Callanish are unique as they form a Celtic cross. Shots of the standing stones (2.02); The westward road takes us to Uig - a fisherman's paradise. General views of road and of man by car talking to a fisherman. Shots of the landscape and a cove by the shore (2.36)