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Title: HUNTERSTON FISH FARMING

Reference number: T0110

Date: 1970's

Production company: Scottish Television

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.45 mins

Description: Footage showing work of Marine Fish Cultivation Unit in Ayrshire. Includes a photo opportunity with Unit's flatfish, possibly at the end of a project.

Shotlist: Sign: White Fish Authority, Marine Fish Cultivation Unit, Hunterston. Shots of fish farm. Man working with fish, standing in tank; shot of flatfish swimming in tank (0.37); blank (0.43); [Trims] Cultivation Unit sign; shots of car park and new shed under construction (1.26) ls Hunterston Power Station, pan over Unit (1.47) exts. densely populated fish tank, pan to group posed for picture, a small girl perched on the side with a net and two unid. men [project managers?] (2.16) c/u fish swimming through tank (2.48) ms girl is picked up off the tank; man nets fish and shows it to camera; small girl is lifted up to see it (3.27) ints. man uses a wooden board with a backstop to pick up large flatfish, standing in tank; man rests the board on a ledge and firmly strokes fish, emptying bladder? (6.21) c/u fish at bottom of tank, one is netted and held up, eventually escaping; a second is caught, held up and returned (7.45)