| COPENHAGEN CAMEOS - THE FISH MARKET Copenhagen Fish Market, 1933 | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6786 |
| Catalog #: | 494777 | |
| Clip Number: | 494777-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | EP 265 | |
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| Location: | Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FOOD: Seafood, Fish SHOPPING: Open-Air Markets | |
| Description: | COPENHAGEN CAMEOS - THE FISH MARKET Scenes at the fish market in Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark Fish market in street; vendors stand behind rows of crates w/ fish displayed on top; customers wait as the vendors (almost all female and wearing identical stiff white bonnets) wrap up fish; buildings in BG - looks like street of small shops. MS customer and fishwife; other fishwives in BG. MCU dead fish lying on wicker tray. MS fishwife hooks fish onto a hand-held scale, holds it up and adjusts weighted cylinder on one end to balance w/ fish on other end; a few other men and women watch. LS rows of small boats against wharf; a fisherman is standing on boat reaching down with a net on a pole to pull up live fish from a smaller boat beside it. LS one of these little boats on top of 2 others; here one can see that the sides are dotted with small holes and the top is covered with boards. MLS tilt down: man scoops fish out of water-filled compartment of one of these fish container boats. MLS man in suit and cap walks along wharf toward camera carrying a large fish on his shoulder; group of other fishermen and women, market workers etc. watch from behind him on wharf. MCU guy with the big fish. | |
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