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Title: RESCUE AT SEA / AHEAD OF SCHEDULE / IMPACT AT SEA

Reference number: 9499

Date: 1977* / 1981*

Director: d. Coopey

Production company: Highland Film Unit

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.58 mins

Description: Compilation of sections of films about sea rescue, oil rig fabrication and impact testing of buoys.

See also related refs. 4258 and 5011

Shotlist: RESCUE AT SEA - shots of a search and rescue exercise, rescue speedboat heading towards people in a life-raft with orange smoke flares. Rescue boat takes men on board from raft and speeds away, watched by crew on trawler 'Trustful'. [black leader followed by sections from MIA film ref 4209, 'Ahead of Schedule'] Oil rig being built. Boats moored at sea. Officials from Highland Fabrications tour site. Close ups of ropes and components of the rig. Men working machinery. Shots of oil rig frame. Explosions cut the anchor ropes. The frame is tugged out to sea by four boats. BALMORAL NAV AIDS - BUOYS FOR OFFSHORE , ESTUARY & RIVER - IMPACT AT SEA - impact tests offshore - small fishing boat A.753 Loyalty repeatedly crashes into two different buoys marked 'Pentire', as officials watch from the harbour wall.