ABERDEEN FISH MARKET
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Title: ABERDEEN FISH MARKET
Reference number: N0098
Date: 1979
Production company: Grampian Television
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.59 mins
Description: A news piece featuring interview with auctioneer Dennis Nicoll at Aberdeen fish market. Interview discusses the rising price of fish and the poor stock numbers of fish coming to market. Also includes interviews with customers on the street about whether this pressure is broadening their tastes in fish.
Shotlist: gvs bidding at Aberdeen fish market, shots of boxes of fish being labelled as they are auctioned off (0.46) interview with Dennis Nicol, talking about how poor the market stock is and the sharp rise in prices as a result (1.32) Mr Nicol skins and guts a red gurnard fish (2.45) washing a squid, he removes the whole 'backbone' and shows it to camera; he speaks about customer attitudes to fish (3.38) vox pops with customers, quizzed whether they would eat less popular fish species, intercut with gurnards in fishmonger's window (4.29) reporter eating red gurnard and salad; he sniffs the fish, then tastes it, pulling a face (4.59)