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Title: FIT O' THE TOON

Reference number: 7576

Date: 2003, June

Director: filmed by Daphne Barbieri

Sound: sound

Original format: Mini DV

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 7.40 mins

Description: A short documentary about Alex Spink and Sons fishmonger's business in Arbroath, including footage of fish processing and the preparation of Arbroath smokies.

Credits: Filmed in Arbroath, June 2003 by Daphne Barbieri

Shotlist: [shot-listed from VHS - manual control track]

title - gvs Arbroath harbour, fishing boats, creels, gulls - shots of tourist information board (1.04) gvs Alex Spink & Sons premises - fish crates being unloaded from lorry, c/u shots fish - workers breaking heads off haddock - crates being wheeled into processing room (2.08) fins being removed - fish being skinned and filleted (3.02) workers demonstrate 'angel wings' filleting and skinning - preparation of smokies: fish being gutted and cleaned, then tied in pairs (4.11) ints of smokehouse, fish being removed and replaced, fire damped down (5.10) worker preparing haddock for cold smoking - smokies removed at end of process and sprayed with cold water, then packed into boxes (6.32) lorry leaving factory - ext and int gvs of Alex Spink shop and c/u shots of fish - vox pops in street about Arbroath smokies - After a two-year fight by fish merchants, the traditional Arbroath smokie is set to be given a European regional trademark in a bid to see off inferior imitations. If approved by the European Parliament, the hand-made (not mass-produced) Arbroath haddock delicacy will rank alongside items such as Parma Ham, Camembert and Champagne. ecs (7.40)