YOUNG GANNET, a
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Title: YOUNG GANNET, a
Reference number: 0990
Date: 1932
Director: [d. Jenny Brown]
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.14 mins
Description:
A solan goose is caught by a crofter on Shetland, but is returned to the sea after a fortnight.
One of a group of films mde by Jenny Brown in 1932 and purchased by John Grierson for the GPO Film Library.
Shotlist: Credits (.11); This young gannet or solan goose was caught on the west coast of Shetland (.22); But as it thought nothing of swallowing 20 fish to a meal, it was returned to the sea after a fortnight to do its own fishing (.37); Shots of a crofter taking the young gannet from a shed and feeding it (2.52); The gannet is then put back into the shed (3.10); The End (3.14)