How Kippers Leave Home - and Lowestoft

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

537

Date Released

17 Sep 1931

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

NoS synopsis: Lowestoft, Suffolk. "Eve is responsible for the first stage of transforming herrings into juicy kippers." C/U of three women standing at a table in the open air gutting fish.C/U of a fish being gutted. "A good wash..." A man pours a basket of herring into another basket. The second man then swishes this basket around inside a tub of water to wash the fish. "-and then a fine old pickle." The herring are poured into a pickling vat. We then see the herrings being scooped out of the vat and into another basket. "Later, the one-time herrings are found high and dry on "horses." Camera tilts down to show the splayed out fish hanging on drying hooks. "An adjournment to the smoke-room follows - " Men carry the herrings into the smoking room. "- where they remain for eight smoky hours." The fish are taken off the smoking racks and passed out of a window to a man below. C/U of man unhooking the fish from their smoking racks. "This makes real kippers of them."

Keywords

Food and cooking; Fisheries

Written sources

British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP221

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