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Title: SALMON FROM SCOTLAND

Reference number: 3095

Date: 1983*

Director: d. Bob Harvey

Sponsor: The Scottish Salmon Growers Association

Production company: Blackrod

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.27 mins

Description: Film advertising the benefits of farmed salmon, Scottish salmon in particular. The filmmakers take care to demonstrate the versatility and affordability of farmed salmon, as well as its role in salmon preservation.

Credits: p. Jill Roach
nar. Iain McCulloch
sd. David Batchelor Cameron Crosby, Paul Vicars
ph. Mike Herd, John Lamborn, Keith Taylor
ed. Colin Barratt
w. Jill Roach
researcher Nick Cooper
title design Roger Kennedy
dubbing mix Peter Maxwell
The producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Highlands and Islands Development Board

Shotlist: Various serving suggestions for salmon with titles overlay (0.37) Gvs of Henley Royal Regatta with people lunching on salmon (1.55) Shots of various boats out on the Thames (2.08) Cuts to a Scottish river (2.30) Salmon leaping the falls (2.56) Two anglers preparing to fish, selecting their flies (3.19)Ghillie Ian McLure advising a visitor about fishing on his preserve of the river Snizort on Skye (4.58) Preparing to cook salmon in a fish kettle in Skeabost Hotel, v/o gives details on how to properly cook salmon (6.04) The salmon returning home to lay its eggs (6.29) fishermen waiting to catch them a(6.38) Commercial netsmen at work hauling in a catch of salmon (7.13) Overhead views of landscape of west coast of Scotland and the salmon farms (8.36) a salmon farm; young salmon are introduced to salt water; c/u owner Allan MacAskill; Leslie MacKay checks the fish in seawater pens; Leslie hand feeds the fish; fish are separated by size (11.53) fish at Billingsgate Market (12.44) Chef Gerhard Moser explains the various methods of cooking salmon to his students in Westminster Catering College (13.27) Demonstration of preparation of various cuts of salmon (14.01) Cooking salmon in various ways including, frying, poaching and "Salmon en croute St. Vincent" (16.49) Gvs Petticoat Lane in London (15.41) Exts and ints of Marks Deli, Mr Victor, slicing salmon (17.14) Ints Goldstein's smokery showing the various steps in smoking salmon whilst v/o gives more detail (18.54) Gvs village of Sutton Courtney in Oxfordshire (20.03) Ints the local school, preparations for the parent-child sports night (20.03) One mother buying salmon to make kedgeree for the meal (20.51) At school the mothers prepare the food whilst the football pitch is prepared by the children and teachers (23.03) The participants arrive (23.16) The table is set (23.29) Gvs the races (23.46) People enjoying their food (24.02) Back to the races (24.20) Ian McLure and angler return to the Skeabost hotel with their catch (24.35) The cooked salmon being presented to the hotel clientele (25.04) Exts of the hotel (25.19) Gvs river with end title overlay (26.32)