| ISLAND DOCTOR Fires are lit on Bardsey Island to send messages to mainland. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7127 |
| Catalog #: | 2842 | |
| Clip Number: | 2842-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 173 | |
| Timecode: | 01:07:08 - 01:10:40 | |
| Location: | Caernarfonshire, Wales. | |
| Year Shot: | 1948 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMUNICATIONS: Unusual HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Misc. LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, Wales OCCUPATIONS: Medical, Doctors | |
| Description: | Island doctor. Bardsey Island, Caernarfonshire, Wales. Camera pans across rocky coastline to 2 sheep on grass. The camera pans to Bardsey Island out in the sea. M/S of Bardsey Island. M/S of Mrs Will Evans, wife of the coastguard, preparing to answer smoke signal from the island. Shots of signal fires on the island which means there is illness, M/S as she lights reply fire. M/S of rowing boats in cove on shore. Various shots of doctor with case climbing down to motorboat, and boat being pushed out. C/U sheepdog. M/S fishermen carrying doctor to boat, dissolve to boat proceeding to island. L/S of coastline, scene dissolves to doctor going ashore on isle. Pan from cottage to church on island. M/S cattle grazing. M/S showing countryside of Bardsey. The doctor walks up the lane to the cottage. Several shots of the doctor going to cottage, dissolve to mother with baby, the doctor leaves. M/S Bardsey Island. | |
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