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Title: TASK FORCE

Reference number: 1795

Date: 1962

Production company: Research Film Unit, Edinburgh

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.52 mins

Description: A look at the work of the Conservation Corps at Aberlady Bay Local Nature Reserve, East Lothian.

Credits: p. and ph. Eric C A Lucey
Department of Animal Genetics
Research Film Unit, Edinburgh 1962
Distributed by the SCFL

Shotlist: Credits (.16); Conservation Corps at Aberlady Bay Local Nature Reserve (East Lothian). Shot of ordnance survey map of the area (.53); Aerial views of Loch Ness House and Aberlady Bay. (1.32); General views of Burn foreshore and salt marshes (2.26); Shots of people feeding shelducks, redshank, dunlin and other species of birds (3.42); Shot of concrete camp blocks (3.52); Shots of marain grass and musk thistle (4.16); Shots of arctic terns (4.22); General views of sea buckthorn (4.53); Brief shots of bog cotton, yellow iris, snakeweed and rushes (5.30); General views of bog and shots of work being carried out on the area by the Conservation Corps (10.44); Credits (10.52)