(21 Mar 2013) SHOTLIST 1. Mid of festival participants pouring hundreds of shelled eggs into a large pan 2. Close up of a woman taking eggs from a crate and cracking them into the pan 3. Wide of two men placing lid on the pan 4. Wide of people gathered around fires and tents set up on riverbank 5. Tilt down from cook to his hands stirring spring onions in a large frying pan 6. Mid of two men looking at the frying pan 7. Mid of cook pouring a bowl of scrambled eggs over the spring onions in the pan and stirring 8. Top shot of cook stirring the mixture of onions and eggs in the pan 9. Close up of a woman looking at the pan 10. Close up of hand stirring the mix of spring onions and eggs in the pan 11. Pan of people standing next to the frying pan receiving platefuls of scrambled eggs from the cook 12. Mid of three men waiting for scrambled eggs 13. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Faruk Kadric, Zenica resident: "Egg frying is in fact a symbol of a new beginning, a new life." 14. Mid of a group of people eating scrambled eggs 15. Wide of a group of men standing by a small fire 16. Close up of a man cracking eggs into a small frying pan over fire 17. Mid of three men watching man making scrambled eggs 18. Tilt down from face of Dzevad Mikanovic to his hands cracking eggs into a small frying pan 19. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Dzevad Mikanovic, Zenica resident: "This is a hundred-year-long tradition in the city of Zenica. No matter if it rains or snows, we hold the scrambled eggs festival on the first day of spring, 21 March, each year. Now we are making Zenica scrambled eggs. The weather today is poor, it's raining, but nothing can prevent us." 20. Wide of men eating scrambled eggs 21. Pan of people watching the Zenica brass orchestra playing in front of an egg-frying tent STORYLINE: There is no better way to greet spring than with a lot of sizzle. Or at least that is what the people in Zenica, central Bosnia, believe. Each year, they gather on the banks of the Bosnia River on the first day of spring to fry thousands of eggs and eat them together. "Egg frying is in fact a symbol of a new beginning, a new life," explains one Zenica resident, Faruk Kadric. Local restaurant owners compete in who will make a bigger portion and the record set this year went to a team who fried 1,500 eggs in one huge pan. The tradition known as 'Cimburijada' or 'the Festival of Scrambled Eggs' dates back at least a century, but while nobody really knows its origins, Zenica residents are more than happy to have it continue. "No matter if it rains or snows, we hold the scrambled eggs festival on the first day of spring, 21 March, each year," says Dzevad Mikanovic, as he stirs his own pan of scrambled eggs as a small group of Zenica residents look on. "Now we are making Zenica scrambled eggs. The weather today is poor, it's raining, but nothing can prevent us." In fact, they are so proud of it that they want to nominate it for inclusion on the United Nations Cultural and Scientific Organisation's (UNESCO) intangible world heritage list. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8ff1fe78395e1dcad9524ddd13d08185