:51:00
(Music and clapping)
:51:05
(Christie) There's also a real sense
of background here, too.
:51:09
Again, something unusual, we have...
dramatic scene in the foreground
:51:12
and, behind it, the whole sense
of different groups and pairings.
:51:17
It's a shot full of depth and infused
with a sense of community.
:51:28
In Lerwick...
this is the outside world,
:51:31
this is really the first time
we've been off the island.
:51:34
There's something quite evocative
about it to our eyes,
:51:37
because it looks
almost picturesque.
:51:40
But I think what it's meant
to stand for, in this context,
:51:43
is something industrial.
:51:45
It's alien, it's very different,
:51:47
the opposite of Foula.
:51:49
These great barrels, all piled up,
:51:51
speak of a busy, bustling port.
:51:53
Lerwick was very important
for the production of the film.
:51:57
It was the nearest base
:51:59
where they could go and watch
rushes in a cinema.
:52:03
It was the only thing that enabled
the production to keep going.
:52:06
On the 26th October,
:52:08
a date which Michael Powell
remembers vividly,
:52:12
there was sunshine nowhere
in the entire United Kingdom,
:52:15
except in Lerwick.
:52:17
That sunshine enabled them
to do a mighty day's shooting
:52:21
and salvaged the film,
:52:23
in terms of getting
all the narrative shots they needed.
:52:42
(Wind howls)
:52:45
(Dialogue)
One of them'll be picked up.
:52:47
Aye, if they're not blown
too far south.
:52:49
Nah. This wind'll take them
right among the fishing fleet.