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Title: ON THE LINER 'ASIA' FROM INDIA TO ITALY

Reference number: 8434

Date: 1955

Director: [filmed by John Morris]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 10.55 mins

Description: Amateur footage of a journey by a Scottish couple working in the jute industry in Calcutta (now Kolkata), returning home on leave on the Italian liner 'Asia' from Bombay (now Mumbai) through the Suez Canal to Italy.

Material uncovered by production company during making of documentary about jute, 'Brian Cox's Jute Journey' for BBC.

[Please note the viewing copy may display some visible defects such as flicker]

Shotlist: [shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]

[no title] - shots of snake charmer with cobra in Bombay (now Mumbai) - shots of tug sailing past - shot from ship of passengers disembarking down gangway, and onlookers waving from pier - shots of port as ship leaves harbour, flying Italian flag at stern - shots of pilot boat alongside, gvs of coastline (1.36) shots of crew at work on board - shots from deck of ship, passing warship, dhow, oil storage depot on bank - more shots on board ship, families playing in swimming pool, Anne Morris swimming and sunbathing - shots of sea and passing vessels - shots of coastline from ship, passing vessels, another Italian liner, oil tankers - Anne sunbathing on deck - gvs of sea and coastline - passing rocky islands and bulk carrier - more shots of Anne in swimming pool (6.57) shots from ship in Suez Canal, gv of desert - shots of John and Anne Morris and friend Faroucho (Frank) Brocchi of Lloyd Triestino on board - shots of canal banks, small jetties and houses (8.31) shots in Mediterranean, passing island, coastline - shots of passing liner - shots at dusk of coastline and mountains at Genova (10.55)