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Title: AGRICULTURE AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES IN SHETLAND

Reference number: 4277

Date: 1966* / 1968*

Production company: The North Of Scotland College Of Agriculture

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.25 mins

Description: A look at agriculture and other industries in Shetland, circa late 1960s [mute]

Shotlist: title (0.09) turbo prop aircraft landing at airport (Sumburgh, Shetland?) (1.05) map of Scotland and Scandinavia, map of Shetland (2.35) gvs remains of stone mediaeval buildings (3.22) map of Shetland (3.44) gvs landscape, m/s peat stack, farmland, fields (5.25) man standing outside stone mill building (6.07) gvs over farmland landscape, people making hay bales just in view. M/s loading bales onto tractor trailer. Grass being emptied from tractor trailer, small boy drives tractor loading grass into barn (8.56) gvs examples of new road and housing construction (we don't see any building action taking place, however). Forestry plantation? (11.45) cows in field, brief gv quarry and workers, m/s farmer sowing seed (?) over field, perhaps feed for animals (?) (14.10) gvs at cattle market. Cattle are led by rope leash from boat in harbour onto quayside, then into livestock truck. Brief shot cattle being herded onto ship "St. Clair" (16.51) gvs sheep, horses and Shetland ponies grazing in field (18.42) puppies and hens in garden outside house (19.23) gvs fish farm (20.10) gvs harbour, fishermen stack crates (21.13) gvs ships and boats in harbour (including Bressay ferry services boat, "St. Ninian" ship) (22.11) woman spinning wool at wheel (22.45) gvs women working in textile factory, operating looms etc (23.33) horse riding followed by l/s Scalloway Castle (24.10) brief shot of boat "Replenish", followed by gvs in woodwork workshop (24.54) l/s gvs over harbour area (25.14) ecs (25.25)