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Title: LIVESTOCK GENERAL

Reference number: 10880

Date: 1935 - 1946

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.28 mins

Description: Compilation of footage of horses, cattle and pigs.

Shotlist: Cattle are led past judges in single file. Ints. auction, Dairy Shorthorn? Cattle driven past haystack; sitting in field. Man carrying bag leads mixed herd to trough; cattle eating concentrate powder?; man spreads more on field. [Col] new calves lying in sunshine in field [bw] gvs cattle are called into open-air stalls, set up for automatic milking, released through hatch into field; hand milked. Ints. creamery combing? milk. Cows and calves share field with sheep. Gvs shorthorn? bulls at show. Bull in field. Man holds up tray seedlings. Cows walk through gate. Man dips number stamps in paint? & prints no. on pig; elevated shot numbered backs. Sow suckling piglets, giving birth. Man removes afterbirth, c/u same. Pair of horses draw shed across field. Unloading wire fencing from cart. Men dose piglet, c/u mouth is held open with stick, medicine spooned in. Black section. Gvs heavy horses shown in single file. C/u man checks mouth of new foal. Examination of heavy horse; horse is walked and trotted away from camera; file of horses led past judge.