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Title: VIKOMA OCEANPACK

Reference number: 4273

Date: 1978 *

Production company: [ Group 5]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 21.50 mins

Description: Reel 1 documents the inflation and seawards release of a large rubber boom, (such as one used to contain oil spillages at sea), from a boat. Reel 2 shows the fully inflated "oceanpack" boom being reeled back onto boat.

Shotlist: REEL 1
gvs equipment being prepared, and welding work being carried out onboard a large boat at sea (1.57) shot of controls (2.07) men working to inflate the boom, which is trailed in the water behind the boat in a large loop (6.17) after the boom is deployed, the rig used to feed it into the water lowers and raises, and the rest is fed in by hand, before being tied off; c/u boom (9.22) a fishing boat "Castlecraig" pulls up alongside, packages are passed over(10.51)

REEL 2
Footage of the 'Vikoma oceanpack' lying in a square on top of the ocean, attached to the Castlecraig as well as the larger boat; c/u boom, flotation balloon (13.30) c/u zips in boom, onboard (14.00) boats come alongside each other; the boom is brought back onto the boat and folded; c/u winch deflating and drawing it onto the boat; c/u monitoring equipment? (21.50)