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Title: OTTERBANK

Reference number: 5237

Date: 1960s c

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.20 min

Description: Film recording a visit of the bank boat, "Otterbank" to another boat at sea. This boat supplied an inter-island banking service around Orkney from the National Commercial Bank (later amalgamated with the Royal Bank of Scotland) between 1962 and 1970.

Shotlist: Boats in harbour with Kirkwall registration 'K'. (0.09) four men walk out to a small boat; boat sailing out to sea. (0.50) tracking shot of coast from boat (1.31) Gvs of 'Otter Bank' meeting another boat; shots men from both drinking and smoking together; "Otterbank" moving away [NCB sign visible]; c/u wake (2.44) tracking shot from boat leaving harbour (3.20)