LOBSTER CATCHING
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Title: LOBSTER CATCHING
Reference number: 3557
Date: 1939*
Director: filmed by William Kirkness
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 5.20 mins
Description:
Lobster catching in the Orkneys.
Entered in Edinburgh Amateur Film Festival, 1938.
Shotlist: Lobster Catching. A School film made in the Orkney Islands by William Kirkness c/u lobster with intertitles explaining how lobsters are caught in creels (1.26) shots of lobster fishermen in their small fishing sail boats with c/u fisherman pulling in lobster catch, putting bait into creel, and pulling in lobsters (4.28) caught lobsters are stored in a "floating chest" (5.09) The End (5.16)