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Title: SEA SHANTY

Reference number: 4278

Date: 1970 c

Production company: [ Group 5]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 2.02 mins

Description: Three men, perhaps fishermen, play a sea shanty, while the song is placed in context by jump cuts to beach scenes, harbour scenes, and a shot of a woman (presumably representing who the song is about). [mute]

Shotlist: sea shanty (0.04) int. room where three fishermen (?) play a sea shanty on accordion (image very dark), cutting back and forth to gvs beach, m/s ships in harbour, fishing nets (1.56) the end (2.02)