FRIENDS IN CLIFF ISLAND, MAINE

Series: friends-in-town-and-country

Year Published: 1970

Creator: the-behrens-company-encyclopedia-britannics

Description: This film from the "Friends in Town and Country" series. "Friends in Cliff Island, Maine" (1975) is about life on Cliff Island, Maine, focusing on the daily activities of a boy named David McBain and his family, particularly their involvement in the lobster fishing industry. It details how lobsters are caught, processed, and brought to market in Portland. :0:24 David McBain introduces himself and invites viewers to be friends.0:31 David states that he lives on an island on the Atlantic coast, in the northeastern United States, specifically in the state of Maine.1:14 He specifies that he lives on Cliff Island, which is located in Southern Maine and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.1:50 David explains that people on Cliff Island haul a lot of lobsters. He shows his dad's workboat and a buoy that marks one of his lobster stringers.2:00 He defines a "stringer" as a bunch of wooden traps tied together, used to catch lobsters.2:36 The film shows how fishermen sell lobsters in Portland, where they are unloaded, weighed, and sorted by size into holding tanks.2:51 The lobsters are then taken from the tanks, boxed, loaded onto refrigerated trucks, and driven to market as "Maine lobster."

Complete Record: This film from the "Friends in Town and Country" series. "Friends in Cliff Island, Maine" (1975) is about life on Cliff Island, Maine, focusing on the daily activities of a boy named David McBain and his family, particularly their involvement in the lobster fishing industry. It details how lobsters are caught, processed, and brought to market in Portland. :0:24 David McBain introduces himself and invites viewers to be friends.0:31 David states that he lives on an island on the Atlantic coast, in the northeastern United States, specifically in the state of Maine.1:14 He specifies that he lives on Cliff Island, which is located in Southern Maine and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.1:50 David explains that people on Cliff Island haul a lot of lobsters. He shows his dad's workboat and a buoy that marks one of his lobster stringers.2:00 He defines a "stringer" as a bunch of wooden traps tied together, used to catch lobsters.2:36 The film shows how fishermen sell lobsters in Portland, where they are unloaded, weighed, and sorted by size into holding tanks.2:51 The lobsters are then taken from the tanks, boxed, loaded onto refrigerated trucks, and driven to market as "Maine lobster."