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)