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Title: JAP WHALING, LEITH

Reference number: 4472

Date: 1957*

Director: filmed by Mr J. McKenzie [Dec'd.]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.15 mins

Description: Men working in the factory where the whale carcasses are brought for dissection in South Georgia and Leith, Antarctica.

See also refs. 4475, 4478, 4480.

Shotlist: [no title or credits] Men sawing a whale back bone into pieces. Pan across a blood soaked deck littered with partial whale carcasses, blubber and skins (1.04) A man pitch-forking whale meat onto a conveyor belt (1.24) A whale skin hoisted on a chain (1.46) Men working in the carnage, separating the meat away from the skin, c/u of loading the meat on the conveyor belt. Hoisting sections of the whale, and cutting the blubber up (2.01) -blank space- (2.17) Thousands of sea birds in the water. C/u of sea birds in the sea which is red with blood. Sea birds pecking and feeding from the whale carcasses lying in the water. C/u on the blubber, left over meat and bones (3.24) Whale skin moving up a conveyor belt. C/u of the skin and blubber being peeled off a body. Two men are helping to separate the blubber from the meat while a machine pulls it clean (4.15)