FISHING BOAT 'FAIR MAID'

Small fishing boats and their crew coiling in nets by hand on the beach [possibly salmon?] Shot is taken from slowly moving boat. (clip)

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Title: FISHING BOAT 'FAIR MAID'

Reference number: 6987

Date: 1934c

Director: [filmed by John Ritchie]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.54 mins

Description: General footage of the fishing boat 'Fair Maid' at harbour. Woden fish crates are unloaded and the final sequence shows small fishing boats and their crew coiling in nets by hand on the beach [possibly salmon?]

Shotlist: [no title] pan across water, fishing boat at harbour (0.07) closer view, three men on boat talking to two men on harbourside, all wearing flat caps. C/u boat, 'Fair Maid' (0.25) wooden fish crates being unloaded from boat by men and placed onto flat-bed truck (1.05) tracking shot from boat as it passes smaller craft, (salmon fishers?) Houses and other buildings visible in background (1.20) shots from midstream across to riverbank as the boat passes two smaller boats, fishing nets being manually coiled and pulled in from water onto beach (1.54)