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One of a group of seven documentaries produced by the Films of Scotland
Committee (set up in 1937), under the supervision of John Grierson and made for screening at the 1938 Empire Exhibition held in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The Committee was charged with the task of producing a series of films on Scottish life. The group of seven titles were much publicised at the time, the subject of
comment in newspapers and on radio. Years later film industry observers hailed
the project as unique in film history and successful in every way.
Seafood, along with They Made the Land (d. Mary Field, 1938), portrayed the use of Scotland's natural resources, her traditions of farming, crofting and fishing and the new scientific methods used to modernise production and
processing of catches.
Kenneth Broom
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