Scottish Fisher Girls (1920)

Scottish fisher girls at George Walker and Sons fisheries. Scottish women workers at large fishery. Opens with women leaning over barrels. CU middleaged woman but strong looking; holding a pile of fish. Line of women carrying heavy buckets of fish between them towards camera. Same women return with empty buckets. Pan on area with all the barrels looks like women are leaning over; cleaning fish. There are trays of white stuff probably salt. Male supervisor walks through looking around. Looking down long table, trough filled with fish; line of women at it. Another view of a few women at work here cutting up fish or just cutting heads off; lots of barrels stacked in background. Women carry baskets and buckets of fish from the long table; it is raining. MS line of women bend over another long trough, several men stand behind them. Looking down the long table just as a barrel is upturned in foreground and more fish dumped in; women working fast like assemblyline. CU one woman cutting and to