First Victims of a Shell-Fish Pleasure

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

627-2

Date Released

3 Sep 1923

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Life-Boat Institution’s Ever Growing Fleet
2. 2Cumberland Wrestling
3. 3Channel Swimmers in a Bath
4. 4First Victims of a Shell-Fish Pleasure
5. 5Acu Motor-Cyclists’ Six Days Reliability Trials

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Only satisfaction of doomed Whitstable ‘Natives’ is that they will cost consumers more this season. Dragged from their beds at dawn." Oyster smack at sea with men hauling in the oyster dredges. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Into captivity". Men carrying oyster loads from boat to horse and cart standing in the sea. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Sorting the prisoners". Three men sorting piles of oysters on floor. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "Interned". Group of small boys by oyster shed. One of them eats an oyster. The oyster season opens in Whitstable.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Fisheries

Credits:

Camera

Frank Danvers Yates

Length of story (in feet)

49

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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