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Title: ANIMAL WELFARE IN SCOTLAND

Reference number: 5290

Date: 1978c

Director: d. Christopher Mylne

Sponsor: S.S.P.C.A. (Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

Production company: [ Universal Film Laboratory Ltd. (?)]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 40.06 mins

Description: A film about the job of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA).

Shotlist: title (0.13); Selkirk Common Riding Race, men on horses crossing a river (0.45); gvs of sheep, horses, sign for 'Linglie Farm' (1.00); S.S.P.C.A. (Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) van, police, crowd lining the road (1.16); Standard Bearer riding a horse ahead of the others in the race holding a flag, horse racing on Tarmac surface (2.11); SSPCA Officer, SSPCA van, inspecting horses (2.58); int. of Horse Ambulance, man driving the ambulance, horses, donkeys, sheep (4.14); Geese, Farm dog 'rounding up' the geese, ducks swimming (4.48); SSPCA house in Shetland, gvs of landscape, Lerwick (5.26); Shetland Ponies (5.54); an isolated croft (6.00); SSPCA Officer shearing sheep, sheep dog (6.37); SSPCA officer and Police Officer getting into van outside the Police Station (6.44); Sheep market (7.36); Sheep being unloaded from a van and put into pens (8.02); gvs of Lerwick harbour; boats, ferry, sheep loaded onto ferry via crates lifted by a crane (8.53); ferry sailing (9.20); gvs of Orkney, cattle grazing in the fields, Large Dairy Building on Swannay Farm, int. of the Dairy Farm, milking machines (10.28); gvs of Kirkwall Harbour (10.45); Cattle being led up a ramp to the Ferry (11.24); Ferry sailing (11.44); Aberdeen Harbour, cattle being unloaded from ferry (12.09); 3 tier lorries loaded with sheep (13.28); Inspectors at market (14.24); Ext. of 'The Central Edinburgh Meat Market Co. Ltd', sheep skin loaded onto trucks (14.49); cattle and sheep (14.57); animal carcasses - intercut with footage of the animals in the field (15.54); Sign for 'Chubby Chicken' factory in Fife, int. of the chicken shed (28 thousand chickens are held in 1 shed) (16.48); SSPCA Officer at the chicken farm, gvs of the farm (17.40); chickens outside eating, a Roe Deer, children feeding the deer (18.49); Small kitten being lifted from the basket (19.11); Children in a classroom painting pictures of cats (20.21); gvs of dog on leads with their owners, stray dogs wandering around (22.50); People leaving to go to work, Dog let out of house to roam the streets, gvs of dogs locked inside houses, dogs roaming the streets (23.54); SSPCA and Police Officers on a 'Stray Dog Patrol', stray dogs being picked up and returned home (26.30); Linlithgow Gala Pet Show; people with their pets, children playing football (28.04); Sign for Cliff Rescue (28.40); SSPCA Officers rescuing a sheep (29.48); show animals - sheep being brushed, boy putting money into a collection box (30.13); photographs of animal cruelty, children looking at the photographs (31.02); Breed names of cattle displayed - Aberdeen Angus, Galloway etc. (31.39); Children working on an Animal Study Project (32.21); SSPCA Officer dealing with cruelty to ponies, feeding the ponies (32.29); Book on animal care, children learning how to care for animals (36.47); Tawny Owl, SSPCA Officer dropping the owl at an Avery, Owl being released (37.47); Donkeys being delivered to Horse Rest Farm (38.16); SSPCA notice for a sale and stall, County Sale for fundraising (39.14); Shots of SSPCA Inspectors working (40.06)