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Title: FISHING AT ROCKALL WITH NORDIC PRINCE

Reference number: 9064

Date: 1984, August

Sound: sound

Original format: VHS

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 50.44 mins

Description: Amateur record of a trawler's expedition to fishing grounds near Rockall, with views of the boat hauling in and crew processing the catch before landing it at Ullapool.

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grey (.04) Title (.05) brief shots men leaving their houses; c/u man driving a mini van; tracking shots through city, then driving north over the Kessock Bridge and Connon Bridge on route to Ullapool, brief shots of sleeping passengers; brief shot vessel 'Nordic Prince' at harbour [musical s/track] (2.37) TAKING ICE ONBOARD (2.47) ls two men watching delivery; c/u ice collecting in hold (3.31) LEAVING FOR ROCKALL (3.40) gv's man instructing younger men on foredeck; men pull up ropes; men on quay packing crated fish with ice; tracking shots trawler leaving harbour; tracking shots coastline; ints. man operating controls; c/u seagull (7.57) SAILING WEST (8.06) gv's white beaked dolphins swimming ahead of trawler's bow wave [musical s/track] (12.33) SUNSET SAILING WEST (12.44) View of sunset, dolphins breaking surface of water, man looking at wake [musical s/track] (15.08) ARRIVING AT THE FISHING GROUNDS (15.16) c/u controls and display; c/u chaffinch-like bird sitting on controls (15.51) SHOOTING THE NET (15.56) gv's same (16.39) HAULING THE NET (16.45) Men operating machinery; gulls gather over the net as it surfaces; net is hauled onboard with catch divided into two ends [musical s/track] (18.31) ms men guiding net chains and floats onto winch; main body of fish are hauled on separately, released into large pen and sorted; another catch is brought in, sorted and gutted, guts thrown over the side (24.56) pair of men packing fish in ice (26.04) gv's another catch hauled in and processed, with shots of the trawler door being secured, fishermen hold up tope found in catch (32.04) younger men playing to camera; smaller fish are thrown into basket and rinsed (33.12) gv's men working at night to bring in a catch (35.54) c/u net hauled in in daylight [musical s/track] (39.18) HOMEWARD BOUND 730 BOXES ONBOARD (39.23) View of the trawler deck; view from wheelhouse and sound of the shipping forecast (40.26) view man shovels fish as another guts them (43.23) Trawler arrives back at port at night and catch is landed; catch loaded on a Bannerman Seafoods lorry; gv's of the fish boxes as they are landed and loaded on the lorry (46.42) view sunset from the trawler; c/u lighthouse on coastline (50.44)