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Shore, The

Microphotographer Dietmar Fill examines the shore - where the sea meets the land - a place of harsh extremes and constant change.
Series : Little World of Dietmar Fill, The | Episode : 3 | Year : 1984 | Total Duration : 24.5 Minutes | Producer : Don Murray, John Shaw
Director : Greg Reading |
Pan along rock platform and surf to Dietmar Fill with wife Bibi and marine biologist Elizabeth Pope exploring rock pools. CUs black and white sea snails camouflaged in pool. CU small crayfish caught in jar then set free in rock pool. Opening titles and images.
Access No. 131356 | 2 mins 11 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS waves breaking over rocks. Low aerials over coastal rocks and surf. CU surf over rocks. Zoom to Dietmar Fill walking amongst seaweed on beach and onto rock platform with CUs of seaweeds. Scientists travelling in boat and dropping net into water to collect samples. GS Fill filming and men winching in net. VS men examining specimen jar at bottom of net.
Access No. 131358 | 2 mins 49 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Dietmar Fill in laboratory with marine sample and looking through microscope. Micro shots of moving organisms and plankton. MS over rocks on shoreline. VS cunjevois and sea squirts over rocks. CUs Fill pushing sea sqirts with foot to produce stream of water. Bibi Fill observes. CUs along rocky shore and crevices in rocks and shells on rocks. Tilt up rocks to line of sea gulls.
Access No. 131359 | 2 mins 13 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS Dietmar Fill, Bibi Fill and marine biologist Elizabeth Pope exploring rock pools. CUs carpet sea stars and Schayer's brittle star in shallow pools. WS rock platform at different tidal stages. CUs brittle star and sea slug?over rocks. Foamy waves breaking over rocks. Micro of plankton. CUs sea anemones amongst rocks and dripping seaweed. MS Pope speaking. CUs brown algae, kelp
Access No. 131364 | 4 mins 5 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECUs limey masses made by tube worms. Macro shots of feathery worms emerging from tubes after waves have dampened them. Zoom and MS hormosira (Neptune's necklace, or sea grapes). Dietmar and Bibi Fill filming seaweed on rock platform. ECU male hormosira exuding sperm from pores. Micros of sperm in water. ECU female plant releasing eggs. Micros of sperm penetrating egg and cell production.
Access No. 131369 | 2 mins 55 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS Dietmar & Bibi Fill near Dee Why sea pool. CUs barnacles on rocks. Fill filming barnacles as wave comes over. ECUs barnacles underwater coming out of shells to scoop up plankton to feed from. CUs periwinkles and noddy shells clinging to rocks. MS Fill with marine biologist Elizabeth Pope on rock platform. CU black & white sea snail and turning over a rock revealing chitons and other marine life.
Access No. 131370 | 2 mins 35 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
VS Fill with marine biologist Elizabeth Pope on rock platform looking at red octopus tentacle coming from beneath rock. CU lifting rock from water with CU to sea hare (slug) on rock. Dieter and Bibi Fill on rock platform at night setting up to film by torchlight. CUs sea urchin. CUs and ECUs of sea slugs, cowrie, sea anemone, scallop, hermit crabs, pistol prawn, a barnacle, flat worm, tube worm and a feather duster worm opening.
Access No. 131371 | 3 mins 14 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
ECU octopus emerging from rock, blowing sand , attacking crab and eating it. Good ECUs of octopus eye. CU red starfish attacking a cowrie. GS rocky shoreline. Track over seaweeds. CU bubble shell and CUs anemone, red & white eleven-armed sea star, brittle star over weed. WS time-lapse red sunset over sea and rock platform
Access No. 131372 | 3 mins 32 secs | 1980s | Long Reef, Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |