Herring Hunt
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|---|---|
| Original title | Herring Hunt |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 11 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julian Biggs |
| script | Leslie McFarlane |
| production | Guy Glover |
| music | Robert Fleming |
| camera | Walter A. Sutton |
| cut | David Mayerovitch |
| occupation | |
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Herring Hunt is a 1953 Canadian short film directed by Julian Biggs .
action
In British Columbia begins in early fall with the end of salmon fishing of herring fishing . Herring is good business at $ 28,000 per net, but the government has set quotas that no one can fish for herring once they are reached. So it is important to be successful before the quota is reached.
The crew of the trawler Western Girl has had bad luck so far, as skipper Alex Ward, unlike everyone else, did not go south. Especially the new Matt Johnson vented his displeasure. In the end, it is he who gets everything wrong with the first possible big catch when the net is deployed, so that a great deal of the crew's equipment is lost. However, he gets a second chance from the skipper. With the second large school of herring on the echo sounder , he is allowed to deploy the net again. This time everything goes well and the crew makes such a big catch that other boats have to rush to help to bring the fish - there are 900 tons of herrings in the net - ashore.
production
Herring Hunt was produced by the National Film Board of Canada . In the French version, the film was titled Les harenguiers . In the United States, the film was first shown on October 16, 1953. It was Bruno Gerussi's film debut.
Awards
Herring Hunt was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Short Film category in 1954 .
Web links
- Herring Hunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Herring Hunt on the National Film Board of Canada website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dennis J. Duffy, "Herring Hunt" (NFB, 1953) . royalbcmuseum.bc.ca.