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  1. 30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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  2. Smoke (1991 Video)

    Director
    Maarten Rens
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Deals with fish smoking in Monnickendam, a small town near Amsterdam. Using archival footage, interviewing old fishermen, and contrasting the traditional and the modern industrial way to smoke fish, the film...

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  3. In Fading Light (1990)

    Subject
    Drama; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 103 minutes), £15.00 (+p&p)

    The film centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by the unexpected arrival of a young woman. A tale of epic proportions, life and death, emotional conflict, told with a documentary...

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  4. Fish ‘N’ Ships: Volume 2 (1987 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 43 min., 1995 sale: £35.25 (inclusive)

    Three films showing the the fishing industry in Grimsby and Hull during its heyday in the half century up to the 1970s. Part 1: Follows a giant freezer trawler, one of the then mighty Ross fleet from...

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  5. Ten Times Empty (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows life on Symi, a barren but beautiful Greek island in the Aegean Sea close to the coast of Turkey. The island has suffered a decline in prosperity and population over the past fifty or more years; the...

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  6. China Coast Fishing (1975 Film)

    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The traditional ‘floating population’ that fishes Chinese coastal waters from family-sized junks based in Hong-Kong harbour is in competition with salaried fishermen using motorised boats. The combined...

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  7. Saving of Bill Blewitt, The (1937 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25 min.

    A fiction film, made in the documentary style, about two fishermen whose boat is wrecked but who manage to save up enough to buy another. Harry Watt has described how he was told to make a film about saving,...

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  8. Man of Aran (1934)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £11.50

    Robert Flaherty is one of the founding figures of the documentary film, and this portrait of the Herculean struggles of the Aran islanders for existence in the teeth of the untamed forces of nature also...

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  9. Voyages of the Sea Harvesters

    Director
    J. Evans Gordon; Alex Lowe; James Blair; Tom Ralston; Ken Neil
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 65 minutes), £20.41

    Collection of films from the 1930s documenting the working lives of fishermen who worked on the fleets during the 1930s. Originally silent, the films have been enhanced with music scores and commentaries by...

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