Colour: Galway Oyster Festival

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2260

Date Released

25 Sep 1972

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Section Title

Colour

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Galway Oyster Festival - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: Last year Ireland sold three million oysters and made a cool £100,000. Each year a festival is held to mark the opening of this lucrative season and fish experts come from all over Europe to taste and buy. This year the title of Oyster Pearl went to a nineteen year old language student, Miss L O’Dea. SHOTLIST: GV exterior a London oyster bar. CU interior plateful of unopened oysters. CU six unopened oysters in shells on plate. CU oyster in shell. LV people eating oysters. SV two men at oyster bar. CU removing oyster from shell. CU man eating oyster. SV pan oyster fisherman in boat in Galway Bay. GV fisherman dressing oyster beds. SV fisherman sorting oysters on table in boat, small oysters are tipped back in sea. CU ditto. SV ditto. LV fisherman hauling up oyster net. CU man ditto. SV hauling net loaded with oysters onto table in boat. CU oysters being emptied from net. SV man sorting oysters. SV he opens oyster and eats it. GV Miss Lily O’Dea this year’s Oyster Pearl arriving in boat with first oysters. SV ditto in boat coming alongside quay. SV spectators. SV Oyster Pearl up steps. CU man holding small girl. SV Oyster Pearl presenting 1st to Mayor of Galway, he eats oyster at 122’ & nods approval. SV group of girls watching. SV Mayor drinking glass of National Black Brew. GV pan people applauding. SV man from Holland at table opening oysters. CU pan ditto. SV man from Germany ditto. LV pan people in gardens. SV Oyster Pearl presenting plateful of oysters to Herr Rodolf Lapp of Frankfurt (Director of Lufthansa) in return, at 166’ Herr Lapp presents Oyster Pearl with silk scarf. CU Oyster Pearl, pan to Lapp eating oyster. SCU pan people ditto.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Women; Competitions

Locations

Republic of Ireland; Galway

Card file number

98468

Credits:

Camera: George Fleishchmann
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

194

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