Sea Harvest

1936 , Great Yarmouth (Norfolk)

Cat no. 338

The fishing industry in Great Yarmouth.

Amateur film. Two shots showing steam drifters entering the harbour and steaming up river. The catch is unloaded and then gutted and packed in salt by the fisher girls. The girls leave the Quay in the back of a lorry. There is a shot of a Banff drifter Pitgavenney run aground and the final shot is of the Peterhead drifter 'Olive Branch'. This shows the boat breaking up on the beach.

Keywords

Drifters; Fisher girls; Fishing industry

Intertitles

Great Yarmouth, November. The catch unloading. Gutting the herrings. Which are then packed in salt. Ready to be shipped to Russia. The toll of the sea. High and dry. Wreck of the drifter 'Olive Branch' lost with all hands.

Camera : Mr Croxson

Manifestations

Sea Harvest

Category: Non-fiction
Genre: Amateur / Industrial / Sponsored Film
Locations: Great Yarmouth (Norfolk)
Work Type: Film
Description Type: monographic
Subject: Olive Branch (drifter) / steamboats / herrings / shipwrecks / drifters / fisher girls / herring fishing

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