Fish Art (1960)

Various brilliant M/Ss of Billingsgate Fish Market, London, showing men carrying boxes around on their heads, wheeling barrows, stacking boxes and so on. Some wear the traditional porters’ cork hat. Commentator talks of the history of the market. M/Ss of several pictures hanging on a wall; some are of fish and seascapes; two Billingsgate porters are looking at them and discussing; the older man holds a large crab. C/Us of a painting of three fish (called ’All Alive’), and then the man with the crab - it’s a big one! Commentator tells us that everything in the exhibition was painted by men who work in the market. C/Us of a painting of a fishmonger (titled ’The Gov’), the younger man looking up at the pictures, then a picture of some kippers (’Loch Fyne Special’) on a plate. M/S of two of the artists looking at pictures; C/Us of a painting of a bearded man (called ’Art Student’). M/S of several paintings on the wall; two portraits (one of a man carrying a large fish on his head) and four scenics.