WICK HARBOUR AND FOALS
Full length video
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Title: WICK HARBOUR AND FOALS
Reference number: 4615
Date: 1935c
Sound: silent
Original format: std. 8mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.05 mins
Description:
Fishing boats at Wick Harbour, including the loading of sheep and cattle onto the ferry. Features brief shots of a foal at the end.
The harbour is busy and vibrant, the opening scenes capturing this moment well.
Shotlist:
[shotlisted from speed corrected VHS copy, manual control track]
Kodak safety film (0.00.08) Gv's bustling fishing boats, at Wick Harbour, includes shot of baskets laden with fish being unloaded from boat. (0.00.44) M/s steamboat moving along water, harbour wall in background (0.01.15) C/u shot of two women and a man looking on-they laugh and get embarrassed when they realise they are being filmed. (0.01.27) Herds of sheep, and then cattle, are loaded manually onto steam ship. (0.02.55) Shot of two women with a Clydesdale foal and its mother in field. (0.04.05)