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Title: PITTENWEEM 1946 / SMITHS / MAY ISLAND BOATS

Reference number: 6736

Date: 1946

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 4.13 minsc

Description: General views of various family members walking along a beach (Pittenween, 1946). Brief shot of a woman buying a jug of milk from a milk cart. People on a small launch boat arriving at a pier.

Shotlist: ls Woman and man walking along beach, possibly Billow Ness at Anstruther Wester; meet two women, one in uniform, and shake hands. Family foursome walk towards camera. Man wipes rock for women to sit down. Foursome throwing stones. (0.53) Closer view woman and man, man carrying small parcel. (1.08) Trawler coming into harbour, being tied up. (1.37) Woman feeding horse in harness, standing in the street. Man talking to woman with jug, beside cart loaded with milk pails. Another angle, man fills jug from milk pail, and woman pays him (2.05) Man smoking pipe, two women either side, shed in b/ground. Another man smoking pipe, on his own, all are smartly dressed. (2.27) Man and young boy on beach playing with buckets. (2.45) Crowd of people on small boat, they depart as boat is tied up. Mast is folded down. (3.05) People on small boat at sea, view from pier as it approaches. (3.35) Elevated view small boys on board; passengers depart boat and climb up metal harbour ladder. (4.13)