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Title: DUTIES OF A SANITARY INSPECTOR

Reference number: 7011

Date: 1960 - 1965

Director: [filmed by unidentified employees of Falkirk Town Council]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.57 mins

Description: Collection of film shot by unidentified employee of the workings of the Town Council's sanitary dept. This particular footage records the work of the Sanitary Inspector, from analysing water and food samples or monitoring pollution to pest control and food hygiene. [see also refs 3339, 7010, 7012]

See also ref T2262.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted with aid of donor's notes]

[Reel 3] 1960-65
Duties of a Sanitary Inspector. Gv's sanitary officials at work. Collecting samples of water from Greenhorn's Well, a sink tap and a swimming pool (2.30) samples of sausages, sealed with wax (3.21) [blank] (3.25) checking sewage pipes, water works and River Carron water [4.56] [blank] (4.58) Shots emissions from industrial chimneys, steam locomotives, and industrial waste sites (6.46) [blank] (6.48) gv's inside tannery, exts tannery with smoke belching from chimneys (7.41) [blank] (7.44) pest control digging out rats, possibly gassing them? and a stoat (8.49) [blank] (8.53) Bakery production line, cakes and loaves of bread (9.39) [blank] (9.41) tinned foods mouldy due to damaged tins, the Sanitary Inspector writes report in notebook on their condition (10.45) [blank] (10.47) domestic water pipes and gutters (11.35) [blank] (11.37) caravan site, possibly travelling people (11.57)

[see also refs 3339, 7010 and 7012]