Item 46b - Cable Surveying and Mark's Holy Communion

1963; unedited film material. The film recording portrays cable surveying, family activities and Mark's Holy Communion ritual.

00:00-00:05 - Surveyor approaching and boarding a boat with six men on it;
00:06-00:14 – Workers on a boat;
00:15-00:26 – Boat sailing out of the bay;
00:27-00:36 – Surveyor and assistant surveying;
00:37-00:53 – Surveyor and assistant get on the boat;
00:54-01:14 – Surveyor and two men on Comino;
01:15-01:23 – Group of men next to a (pipe?), three men cutting a piece of cloth;
01:24-01:31 – Three boys playing in a garden;
01:32-01:41 – Two boys playing in a garden;
01:42-01:53 – Two boys playing with a water hose;
01:54-01:58 – Man drilling a hole in a wall;
01:59-02:15 – Loulou and another woman helping with the (building/renovation?);
02:16-02:24 – Loulou and another woman digging a hole in a wall;
02:25-02:35 – Man in a chair smoking a pipe;
02:36-02:46 – Man drilling a hole in a wall, a woman teases him;
02:47-02:56 – Mark going to his Holy Communion (20 May 1963);
02:57-03:18 – Holy Communion procession;
03:19-03:28 – Mark walking with his parents;
03:29-03:45 – Mark walking with two women;
03:46-03:51 – Mark running towards the camera.

Technical Identification (original/physical copy): film reel Regular 8mm, acetate, colour, silent. Duration: 03:51 minutes. Condition: Good

Technical Identification (digital copy): Size and dimensions MP4: 275 MB (289,120,029 bytes); Frame: 1400 x 950; Frame rate: 23.98 frames/second; Total bitrate: 10010 kbps.