Well, this
film got me a little depressed because it shows how much painstaking work and detail goes into a wooden boat (and skill which I am sorely lacking), but it is so cute and dear, and I adore a Scots
accent. It is called “Build Me Straight”
and it is about a MAGNIFICENT wooden Scottish fishing boat built in 1963. The 15-minute film won the “Amateur Cine World Ten Best Competition Gold Star Award” in
that year.
“Description: Building of a wooden fishing boat. The draftsman is seen
working on the plans, then slowly we see the men in the yard building the
vessel up from the keel. Finally the boat is launched and taken out to sea.
This is the “Shot list” which I am reprinting because you
practically have to have an English translation, and the sound isn’t great.
Gosford Films Present shot of intertitle in thistle-shaped
logo (0.09) Title (0.16) gvs man drafting plans of a boat at a flat desk, with
a model ship [classical organ music, badly warped] v/o reads first lines of the
poem "The Building of the Ship" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1.28)
gvs man building dowelling frame on timber, then sketching an outline in thick
pencil while overseen by older man (1.58) two men cut down tree using chainsaw
(2.28) v/o 7th stanza of The Building of the Ship; gvs men working with
skeleton of the boat's hull, sanding and preparing elements of the timber
frame, then building the boat from the keel (4.11) v/o continues with 9th stanza,
planing wood, building the walls of the hull, treating the inside of the hull
to preserve the wood, (with tar?), includes gvs men using adzes, men shaping
wooden planks to bend their shape to fit the hull (5.12) gvs men drilling holes
into the hull , and then hammering in rivets, gvs men caulking the joins
between planks (6.21) gvs men building the deck, and waterproofing it (8.07)
gvs Men metal working, including soldering and drilling (8.31) Treating the
deck with sealant (8.46) ints man chiselling wood (8.56) gvs heavy sections of
the boat are craned into position including the engine (the crane has been
hired from Bernard Hunter of Leith) (11.58) gvs men prepare boat for painting,
includes shot of hull being sanded; gvs men paint the boat; (12.19) gvs boat is
prepared for launch; launch of boat (12.51) Boat travels to harbour, includes
brief shot other boats and c/u boat's name: "MARYEARED" (13.31) gvs
Boat is prepared and goes out to sea; gvs on boat; v/o continues with the final
lines of the poem (15.22) Gosford Films Production (15.27)
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