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We were mightily impressed by the Gone Fishing programme from the BBC’s Sea Fever series last night.
If you can find an hour, don’t hesitate to get the computer out and dial up the iPlayer to watch this hugely atmospheric programme including lots of home movie and documentary footage, and interviews with some great old boys.
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Perhaps Sheppey can look a little like the Isle of Wight in some light conditions… or maybe not!
We’ve all done silly things in boats. I blush when I think of some of mine, and, naturally, hope that my wife, family and friends won’t tell the world about too many of them. But still I had to smile when I saw this story on the BBC site, thanks to Mouseboats Yahoogroup member Shawn Payment. Thanks Shawn!
I wonder whether he had any insurance? Somehow it seems unlikely.
To enable you to get a grip on this gentleman’s achievement, see this Googlemaps link; also see this shot found by fellow Mousequeteer Lew Clayman for a possible explanation.
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Still of fishermen long-lining from dories in the 1920s, from the Albert Khan archive
Some fabulous documentary film of French fishermen catching cod from on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland is online now via the BBC iPlayer – if you’re lucky enough to have access to it. Click here!
Originally from Alsace, Albert Khan was a rich pacifist, philanthopist and internationalist who sought to promote world peace by using photography as a means of persuading the people in the West of the enormous diversity of human life and culture – so he sent French photographers on trips throughout the World to shoot black and white as well as early colour photos and film.
To say that the material his photographers brought back is hugely impressive would be an understatement. It clearly demonstrates the richness and high degree of civilisation of the lives lived by many in even the remotest areas of the world and should be seen by anyone who doesn’t know enough about people in other parts of the world, just as Khan intended.
But enough of the sermon – this particular programme includes some fabulous footage of the lives and work of dory fishermen fishing from French boats in the era before the trawlers emptied the Grand Banks of cod, as well as excerpts from the telling diary of the photographer who took it.There’s also some nice clips of sailing Breton tuna fishermen in port.
If you can see material on the iPlayer, do catch it before it’s no longer available!
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