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Title: CONSTRUCTION OF A WOODEN SALMON COBLE

Reference number: 8723

Date: 1986

Director: filmed by Mr David A Dunkley

Sound: sound

Original format: VHS-C

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 24.29 mins

Description: Amateur video footage of the construction stages of a wooden salmon coble at Joseph Johnston & Son of Montrose, from the initial marking and cutting of timbers to the eventual trials in Montrose harbour.

Please note the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive also preserves an extended version of this, running to 59.46 mins.

Shotlist: [shot-listed from .AVI file using Quicktime]

gvs inside boat-building shed at Joseph Johnston & Son in Montrose - shots of piles of cut planks - shots of two men, including Tom Easton, trimming curved hull section on jigsaw - cut section is placed on top of cut plank and new curved sections marked out - shots of base section in position on stands and with stem plank added (3.43) shots of three workers passing long flat plank through jigsaw then through planer - shot of keel plank on table - gvs of keel sections on stands with clamps in place - shots of workers fixing keel planks with copper rivets (9.06) shots of workers attaching further planks and clamping them in position - shot of transverse timber on table, then several fitted to shell of boat - shots of older worker trimming transverse timber on bench with adze - shots of large timber being planed and placed in position, then marked for further trimming - shots of large timber being trimmed on jigsaw - shots of notches being cut and sawn, timber being planed and trimmed by chisel (14.47) gvs of coble with side planks built up almost to top of stem - shots of holes being drilled and copper nails being knocked in - c/u shots of washers or 'roves' on inside surface, being fixed with 'dolly' or portable anvil, then ends of nails being clipped off and hammered flat (16.54) shot in yard outside of wood being burned to steam planks - shots of steamed plank being hurried inside and fixed vertically to inside surface of coble, hammered and clamped in place, then riveted to transverse timber and to sides - shots of steamed gunwale? plank being brought in and clamped in position - shots of central longitudinal timbers being fitted, coble nearing completion (21.33) shots of completed coble on trailer at Montrose harbour, c/u shots of wheel, prow - shots of coble being lifted by crane and lowered into water - shots of swans - gvs of coble on trial trips across harbour (23.45) tracking shots on board coble around harbour (24.29)