SEAWEED

Workers on a converted fishing boat collect seaweed from offshore for the Institute of Seaweed Research. (clip - full length available onsite)

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Title: SEAWEED

Reference number: 2505

Date: 1954*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.09 mins

Description: The work of the Institute of Seaweed Research. Men on a fishing boat collecting seaweed for study.

[See also SCAN for institute papers: GB/NNAF/C47812.
Also Ref 3771 "[HARRIS AND LEWIS, OUTER HEBRIDES]" for footage of seaweed processing by Alganate Industries]

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS copy]

No credits. men share a cigarette, man sips tea; men getting equipment and fishing boat ready; ms boat BA 188, "Elmar"; (1.12) c/u moving toothed conveyer; seaweed gathering machinery at work on board boat; men stacking collected seaweed onto pannier on boat; c/u seaweed on conveyer (4.01) tipping seaweed into the sea again (4.08) ms seaweed moving off the conveyer (4.26) men forking seaweed onto pannier; seaweed is tipped back into the sea (5.40) man with clipboard inspects seaweed, before it is tipped over; small sign on boat reads "Institute of Seaweed Research"; further shots of seaweed collecting (7.09)