SCOTTISH COASTS
Motorbike on ferry and people walking onto the ferry. Small motor ferry "Maid of Glencoe" carrying car and passengers. (clip)
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Title: SCOTTISH COASTS
Reference number: 0499
Date: 1937
Director: d. J.C. Elder
Production company: GB Instructional Ltd.
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 13.56 mins
Description:
Life along Scotland's coastlines, visiting the Solway Firth, Aberdeen Harbour, the river Clyde and Kyles of Bute.
See Teaching notes.
Credits:
Made in collaboration with a panel of Scottish teachers
ph. J Blake Dalrymple
Shotlist: Credits (0.34); Map of Scotland illustrating major coastal firths (1.45); Shoreline on Solway Firth. Children play on beach. General scenes of small fishing village, harbour and narrow hilly streets. View of fishing town with boats in harbour (3.36); Map illustrating main fishing ports (4.17); Aberdeen harbour and fleet of steam trawlers. Shots from deck of trawler as it leaves harbour. Men on deck working with tackle, putting nets down and sorting the catch at sea. Herring drifters enter harbour. Catch is unloaded and sale begins. Fisher girls clean and salt ling (8.40); Views of countryside. Two men in a rowing boat (9.24); Small motor ferry "Maid of Glencoe" carrying car and passengers. Shot of the Connel Bridge (9.50); Map showing various routes (10.47); Departure board for Glasgow and Highland Royal Mail steamers. Car is loaded onto the deck of a steamer (11.42); Map illustrating holiday resorts (12.02); The "Lucy Ashton" in the Kyles of Bute. Profile of same (13.32); ecs (13.56)