KIPPERS
This children’s programme explains the process of setting the fires for smoking kippers. (clip)
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Title: KIPPERS
Reference number: T0221
Date: 1970c
Production company: Scottish Television
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.53 mins
Description:
Children's educational programme explaining the process of turning fresh herring into kippers, including gutting, curing, dyeing, smoking and packing.
Shotlist: [No credits] Herring taken from boxes and fed into a gutting machine (0.31) Pickled in brine, dyed and hung on racks (1.35); Sawdust and woodchips spread on the floor of smokehouse and set alight. Kippers are smoked (3.22) Kippers are taken off racks and packed in boxes (3.53)