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Title: SHEEP MISCELLANY

Reference number: 10879

Date: 1935 - 1940 / 1943 / 1945 / 1946

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.16 mins

Description: Compilation of assorted footage of sheep, including shearing, dipping and veterinary procedures.

Shotlist: Sheep fold on hillside. C/u blackface cross?; gvs four rams (wearing caps?) moving around field as spectators look on. Kodak leader. Gvs sheep are made to swim through a long dip tank, completely drenched as they emerge. C/u man washes sheep's face. Shearing, pile of fleeces in b/ground, men tying up fleeces. Lamb standing on dam, suckling. Group of young sheep; tup in with ewes. Shepherd injects lamb in leg, with another sitting in shoulder bag. Man helps recumbent lamb to suckle, holding ewe on its back. ws dry stane sheep shelter in field. Clipping sheep with maggoty wool, c/u egg casings? shaking powder onto wound. Sheep grazing in snowy field, c/u lambs. Men carefully clip sheep next to pens at show. Sheep crowd into pen in valley. Rams?; c/u lamb, black section, pan valley. Gelding lamb using teeth. Man docks or castrates lambs held up by assistant. sheep near feeder in field. Sheep in pens, separated into small groups fed into sheep dip hindquarters first, released into field using hatch. Ewe suckling lamb on hillside. Man uses syringe to give medicine to lamb. Gathered sheep on snowy field and drystane sheep shelter.