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Title: WICK STORM

Reference number: 5455

Date: 1955c

Production company: [ Templar Films]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.28mins

Description: Footage of Wick during a very severe storm with waves breaking over the harbour and seafront walls.

Shotlist: ext. camera pan l/s Wick (0.07) Wick harbour and Bay, large waves crashing on outer harbour and small lighthouse (0.23) men with creels, storms in background (0.31) c/u water overflowing harbour, monument on North Head in b/ground (1.20) view along Bridge Street (1.22) River Street (?) alongside Wick river (1.30) underexposed section - view of harbour from North Head (1.44) outer harbour (1.54) view from North Head with storms lashing harbour (2.08) overexposed c/u harbour wall (2.20) brief shot Wick river (2.22) Wick river, different angle (2.28) snow in f/ground, water breaching wall (2.40) seafront, big hotel predominating, and waves breaking wall (2.56) brief shot flooded road (2.57) flooded road, storms in b/ground (3.13) workers in warehouse doorway, smoking (3.23) lorries loaded with sandbags leaving from outside warehouses (3.28)