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Title: FAITHFUL

Reference number: 7199

Date: 1970 - 71

Director: [filmed by J. D. Souter]

Sound: silent

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 24.54 mins

Description: Amateur footage of fishing boats at sea from the trawler 'Faithful', general views of boats at Peterhead, Fraserburgh and Buckie harbours.

Information from donor: Built at Burghead. Last new build for ? years.

Souter home movies made whilst a deck hand on 'Strathyre' INS65 and ‘Faithful' INS38, based at Lossiemouth, and other general fishing boats 1960s/70s.

Shotlist: [re-shotlisted from mp2 file]

shots at sea, large Russian factory ship passing - gvs at Peterhead harbour, LK.253 Comet arriving - harbour bridge rising, KY.337 Argonaut III passing - gvs including INS.62 Eminent, INS.153 Liberty, BF.151, BCK.248 Helena, BCK.105 Opportune (3.27) shots from boat leaving Peterhead harbour, passing oil rig in distance - on board 'Faithful', catch being landed on deck - shots of INS.66 Acorn, PD.352 Sundari passing at sea - line being attached from Faithful to Sundari (7.37) gvs Buckie harbour, BCK.214 Aquila departing, BCK.142 Celerity arriving, BF.63 Glendeveron departing - shots at sea, on deck, crew members gutting and sorting catch of cod - gvs at sea, other boats passing (12.14) gvs at Peterhead harbour, including PD.86 Tarradale, BF.380 Restless Wave, INS.91 Defiance, PD.38 Resplendent departing (13.43) gvs at sea, trawler passing (14.26) gvs Peterhead harbour, INS.79 Argosy departing - LH.231 Monica Croan (15.45) gvs at sea in the Minch, other fishing boats passing - gv coastline and sandy beach - trawlers passing, including Dutch herring trawler and Norwegian purse seiner - shots approaching Fraserburgh, trawler sitting low in water - gv coastline and Fraserburgh? - trawler passing, FR.559 Golden Harvest? - gvs Fraserburgh, including Norwegian whaler, FR.104 Edelweiss, Argyll FR.110, FR.257 Jessie West - shots departing from Fraserburgh harbour - shots at sea, passing trawlers (23.15) misty gvs of Peterhead harbour, including FR.127 Radiant Star, PD.27 (24.54)