STROMNESS REPAIR BASE AND FLOATING DOCK
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Title: STROMNESS REPAIR BASE AND FLOATING DOCK
Reference number: 3540
Date: 1950*
Director: [filmed by M.B. Christie]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 8.00 mins
Description:
Shots of vessels in docks and the processing of whales in South Georgia. Passengers disembarking from a propellor plane at Turnhouse Airport. Ref. 3537-3549.
See also ref. 3537, 3539, 3541, 3543, 3545, 3546, 3549.
Shotlist: STROMNESS REPAIR BASE AND FLOATING DOCK shots of vessels in docks (0.50) shots of men sitting round table at a meal, on board a vessel (1.19) Wild Life in S. Georgia c/u seals and penguins (2.39) Processing the Whales at Leith Harbour Shore Station [S. Georgia] shot of whale carcass being towed to shore by small motor boat (3.10) whale carcass being brought onto shore to processing plant and being cut up (5.54) Back to Bonnie Scotland shots of propellor plane, British European Airways [BEA] landing and passengers disembarking at [Turnhouse?] airport, being met by families (7.53)