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New England Fishermen

Reel Number: 221675-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1938

Country: USA

Location: Boston,Gloucester,Massachusetts

TC Begins: 08:11:28

TC Ends: 08:22:01

Duration: 00:10:33

Titles. 08:11:46 Large two-mast fishing schooner at sea. Fishermen at work, in rowing boat & hauling nets onto deck - fish dumped out of net. Gloucester, Massachusetts harbor filled w/ fishing boats. 08:12::22 Ext & INT fisherman’s cottage. SOF dramatized scenes of fisherman packing bags for day & having breakfast. Wife serves coffee - discuss poor catches & falling prices - “Why don’t you give up fishing?” “What else can I do?” “The sea’s been good enough for us Daly’s for six generations, you just keep cheerful” - fisherman leaves for work. 08:14:01 Fishermen at work on schooner heading out to sea, sails raised; diesel engine exhaust; men working on deck - crew chop bait - rowboats / ‘dories’ lowered each w/ two-man crew to lay lines & buoys - CU fish caught - doreymen row back to schooner & pitch fish up to ship. Steam & diesel trawlers nearby. 08:16:37 Deck of diesel trawler - men below decks; CUs winches & other machinery - net pulled over rollers onto deck, fish unloaded - CUs haddock & cod - net dragged along sea bed again. 08:18:22 INT ship’s cook in galley. VS fish sorted, washed & forked into hold to be iced - cod livers collected. 08:19:03 INT fishermen eating & resting in bunks. Nets raised & emptied. 08:19:45 Radio operator listens to messages; w/ telegraph key. Skipper supervises pulling in of another load & sorting. Repairing holes in net. 08:21:03 Crowd of seabirds dive for food in wake of ship. Trawler passes schooner on way home. 08:21:33 Boston harbor - trawler approaches past building w/ large sign ‘Boston Fish Pier’. Ends abruptly. Fishing Industry - 1930s; Atlantic Ocean; Danger; Environment / Ecology; Economics; Industrialization / Mechanization / Progress; East Coast USA; Americana;

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