QUEEN OF THE MILKY WAY
Full length video
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Title: QUEEN OF THE MILKY WAY
Reference number: 0264
Date: 1944
Director: d. Stanley L. Russell
Production company: Russell Productions Ltd.
Sound: sound
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 9.40 mins
Description: Dairy farming in Ayrshire.
Credits:
Imperial Noiseless Recording.
sc. Albert D. Mackie
comm. James McKechnie
Shotlist: Credits (.12) shots of Ayrshire countryside and cattle. Cattle herded to milking shed and then returned to field (3.10) shot of prize Ayrshire bull which has sired the latest addition to the herd. Birth of calf entered in records and nameplate made - Myrtle, born 10.12.1940. Myrtle's number punched into her left ear for identification (5.58) shots of calves now being fed on solid food. Vet administers tuberculin test. shots of growing calves feeding in field. Myrtle now has calf of her own (8.38) shots of various crops grown to feed dairy cattle. Shots of farm labourers working threshing machine to produce fodder and grain (9.40)