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Title: Lobster Fishing - GRIMSAY 3 / TIGHARRY SCHOOL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE VISIT

Reference number: 21186

Date: 1978, August 25

Sponsor: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar; Scottish Film Council; Gulbenkian Foundation; Highlands and Islands Development Board

Production company: Cinema Sgire Project

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.29 mins

Description: Real time footage of lobster fishing. School visit and activities regarding an archaeological site. [Gaelic language is spoken with the children].

This video was digitised with support from Bòrd na Gàidhlig and The Gaelic Language Promotion Trust.

The Cinema Sgìre Project was a community project set up by Comhairle nan Eilean in 1977 - 1981 and was largely supported by the Scottish Film Council (a forerunner of the Moving Image Archive), the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Highlands and Islands Development Board. The Project operated throughout the Uists and Barra. In addition to the operation of a mobile cinema the Project also recorded everyday life in the islands.

Cinema Sgire was a community project using early video technology. Any inherent defects such as signal loss, drop-out, visual / audio disturbances, interruptions or incompleteness will be present in the recording.

Shotlist: Brief shot of a group listening to Mike Russell. C/u of instruments on a fishing trawler. Fisherman Hector Stewart at work on the trawler pulling up creels using a motor winch. Views of coastline and waves breaking against the rocks. Camera occasionally zooms to the North Uist shore at Grimish and shows shots of Callernish House, home of Earl Granville who owns North Uist Estates to houses and vehicles. Zoom to a couple of other trawlers in the bay. Video splash – c/u of a child drawing an archaeological site on a large piece of paper outside. [Wind buffeting the microphone but some Gaelic speech can be heard above the wind. Video picture rolls occasionally]. Children back in a classroom at Tigharry School painting a model of the site. Child speaking in Gaelic to describe where they collected the clay to make the pots and how they made them Children dying wool in a pot. Teacher is Effie MacQuien. Children back at the site, noise of the wind on the microphone. [Very little narration in this video. The language used is Gaelic].