Northern Outpost (clip)

This clip presents a look at the fishing industry and agriculture of Shetland and a look at travel between the islands and Aberdeen by steamship. The film opens with shots of Shetland's capital Lerwick, showing the harbour, Commercial Street and Park Lane. As the importance of Shetland to the herring industry is described we are shown fishing boats arriving at harbour and the gutting and packing of herring in barrels for export. We then see a passenger ship depart for the UK mainland before the clip joins a steamer heading north to the island of Whalsay. Upon arrival the steamer is met by flitboats which transfer the passengers and cargo to the island. After some shots of Out Skerries the clip moves on to Unst where we see Shetland ponies. We witness the rounding up of wild ponies and the bridling of one for work on a croft. The clip ends on a shot of the lighthouse at Muckle Flugga to the north of Unst.