| Cabo Blanco - Big game fishing in Peru | ||
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| Catalog #: | 437024 | |
| Clip Number: | 437024-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 827 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Cabo Blano, Peru | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | FISHING: Recreational | |
| Description: | PREVIEW CASSETTE# 211151 B Big game fishing in an unusual geographic location, Cabo Blano, Peru MS sign: GENERAL MITCHELL FIELD AIR TERMINAL (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); MS's man at terminal, taking luggage from trunk of car; great in-flight shot of turbines of a Delta airliner, as seen from passenger window; aerial of Andes Mountains. Map of air route from Milwaukee to Peru. MS's white American male tourists loading luggage onto a Cabo Blanco taxi; traveling shots along Pan American Highway (some nice scenic shots, here). EST shots Cabo Blanco Fishing Club, a forboding fence of severed Black Marlin tails along perimeter; INT shots of Cabo Blanco Fishing Club (resembles a bachelor pad; cushy, colorful furniture abounds). MS of a 1025 lb. Black Marlin hanging on trophy wall; ECU plaque. MS 400 lb. Tuna on trophy wall; ECU plaque. MS trophies on table; ECU's engravingsà .. MS's men leaving clubhouse, getting into car; subjective shots of drive to fishing port and boats. MS's men gathering rods and reels. CU's patches sewn onto fishermen's sweaters (mostly US fishing clubs). TLS men walking down plank to boat. CU map of equatorial & humbolt currents off Cabo shoreà .. CU's rods, reels, tackle, leader and large hooks. MS's man strapping himself into fighting chair as boat sets off coast. MS's & CU's guide using mackerel as bait, lancing them onto hooks and leaders (mostly dead fish, though one shot of live baità huge fish, being hooked). MS's & CU's guide sewing hook and leader through mackerel, so as to make the bait seem more lifelike to swordfish or marlin. Nastyà .. wide MS of crew standing on mast, scouting. MS's Swordfish breaking surface. MS's man in fighting chair, reeling fish in; loses it, CU half-eaten bait. MS's man fighting Black Marlin; CU reel unspooling; tLS's Marlin, bait in mouth, leaping out of water; MS's Marlin nearing boat, almost caught; MS's men spearing and clubbing Marlin on side of boat, bringing it aboard; MS's blood pooling on deck around thrashing Marlin, victorious sportsman (in all white) standing above it; CU's fin, broken tipà .. tLS's school of Pilot Whales (Blackfish) breaking surface. MS's man in fighting chair, reeling in a Thresher Shark (oops, he thought he had caught a Swordfish; they release it)à .. MS's & CU's man reeling a Black Marlin; tLS's & MS's Marlin thrashing, leaping, as it fights for its life. MS's men hooking fish, hoisting it aboard. CU's mouth of Marlin, blood spilling out; the men tie the mouth shut so as to retain more weight before weigh-in. MS's proud sportsman being handed a Schlitz; he opens it, drinks while watching a hand club the Marlinà .. EST shot Los Arganos. Traveling shot of a small local fishing village; MS several boys on a balsa wood raft. TLS's pelicans diving into water for fish. MS's men at port, posing with their catch; CU's men writing date and weight of fish on its tail; tLS's big dead fish (Marlin, Tuna, Maco Shark, Rooster Fish, Giant Squid, etc) being hoisted from boats and onto dock for weighing; MS's man playing with squishy beak of a dead Giant Squid; MS's men dressing a Tuna. Nastyà .. subjective shots from car as men return to clubhouse; CU's & MS's men smoking and drinking at clubhouse. | |
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