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Title: FISHERMAN'S WALK 1933

Reference number: 1404

Date: 1933

Director: [filmed by Frederick Laing]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.10 mins

Description: Footage of the "Fishermen's Walk" through the streets of Musselburgh, Midlothian, by fishwives and others, and shots of a storm and a shooting party.

16mm print held by East Lothian District Council Library. Reeled up with refs. 1402 and 1403.

Shotlist: [shotlisted from speed-corrected VHS]

[no title] shots of Fisherrow Fishermen's Walk along street, led by brass band, followed by military pipe band, fisherwomen and children, older women and youngest children on open cart - gvs of procession along street, some women dancing and waving hankies (1.27) gvs of stormy sea, waves breaking against the Promenade at Musselburgh (2.28) gvs of shooting party in field, possibly at Oxenfoord Castle?, one man shooting birds while another man reloads his second shotgun - more shots of same at dusk - brief panning shot of large detached house (4.10)