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Title: VERY FISHY TALE, a

Reference number: 3826

Date: 1938

Director: filmed by Frank Marshall

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 12.13 mins

Description: A story about a boy who makes his own fishing rod and manages to catch a fish, while a man with all the proper equipment does not manage to catch anything.

Mr Frank Marshall began making amateur films in 1932, always using 16mm. Specially commended by the Board of Amateur Cine World.

Credits: Boy - Nairn Marshall
Fisher - William Scott
The Lady - Gran Marshall
Gamekeeper - Nat Davidson

Shotlist: title and opening credits (0.26) Shots of fish in a pond (0.29) winding fly onto rod for fishing (0.36) boy holding jar with fish in it looking in window at man preparing rod for fly fishing (1.31) Boy showing man fish in jar (2.01) Boy taking string and a rod, he also takes some pins from his gran (4.09) He makes hooks from the pins (4.34) Boy finds worm to put on his hook (6.08) chicken takes worm and boy chases (7.20) man fishing with rod and net (7.38) Boy takes feather he got from chicken and puts it on his rod and starts fishing (8.01) Man fishing (8.05) shots of fishing, boys fishing line hits a calf and it runs off with it (9.24) boy hooks up line again, more fishing (10.14) boy catches fish, gamekeeper sets his dog on boy, man stops fishing (11.26) boy with fish (11.31) boy shows man his catch, then boy gives the man his feather and hook for next time (12.08) Shot of fish in water (12.13) THE END