Lobsters (film)

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Lobsters
Directed byJohn Mathias, László Moholy-Nagy
Starring Alan Howland
Edited by László Moholy-Nagy
Music by Arthur Benjamin
Distributed by ABFD
Release date
  • 1936 (1936)
Running time
17 minutes
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Lobsters is a British documentary film made in 1935 and released in 1936 about lobster fishermen in the port of Littlehampton in Sussex, England and is one of the first aquatic films ever made. [1] Hungarian-born László Moholy-Nagy spent several weeks getting to know the fishermen and their families, which had a long history of fishing for lobsters. Moholy Nagy also got to know the local community and listened to their dialect. [2]

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References

  1. Bennett, Chris (22 March 2010). "When the Bauhaus came to Sussex". BBC. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. McCarthy, Fiona (18 March 2006). "The Fiery Stimulator". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2017.