AYRSHIRE CATTLE
Full length video
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Title: AYRSHIRE CATTLE
Reference number: 0278
Date: 1947
Sponsor: COI for Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland
Production company: Campbell Harper Films Ltd.
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 10.18 mins
Description: The particular qualities of the Ayrshire breed of cattle are highlighted.
Shotlist:
Timing from digibeta transfer was found to be 10.18 mins
Credits (0.20) shots of milk being bottled (0.43) shots of Ayrshires. Map and commentary describing history of the breed. The Scottish Milk Records Association, where records of milk yields are kept (2.50) a vet administers the tuberculin test (4.10) shot of Ayrshire cow and description of breeding points (5.05) shots of cows in milking shed. Example of the court system of dairying. Cows feeding in shed (7.40) Ayrshires on display at Ayr county show. Bulls auctioned at Ayrshire sale (9.33) shots of Ayrshires being loaded onto train. Herd of Ayrshires on farm in Kent (10.15)