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Title: FARMING OUTLOOK

Reference number: 7113

Date: 1979

Director: d. James Goldby

Producer: George Courtice

Production company: tyne tees Colour / Trident Television Ltd.

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 25.10 mins

Description: A tyne tees television report covering the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston, 1979.

Credits: filming Fred Crone
sd. Julian Scott
narr. Peter Sampson
film ed. Howard Beebe
research Warwick Partington

Shotlist: [logo "tyne tees Colour"] title (0.14) shot of marching pipes and drums (0.24) cookery demonstration, in period costume (0.42) woman in bikini and high heels washing cattle with hosepipe (0.56) pipes and drums (1.09) overview of Ingliston site (1.21) shot of James Davidson, the Show's Chief Executive, walking through site speaking on 'walkie talkie' radio (1.39) gvs crowd at Show (1.52) i/v James Davidson, regarding the way the Show is organised into professional days and public days (2.45) brief shot horses, queues waiting to enter Show ground (3.41) i/v Lord Mansefield, Minister for Scottish Agriculture, on latest VAT rises and how the Royal Highland will have to bear the loss (4.19) ints newly built exhibition hall (4.50) Chairman of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society, Angus MacDonald shows Princess Anne around Exhibition Hall (5.12) gvs agricultural machinery displays and demonstrations. Including Dowdswell, plough manufacturers from Warwickshire and their 'automatic reset linkage' (6.04) i/v Roger Dowdswell, on this development (6.38) gvs Massey Ferguson stand tractors, it is the 50 year anniversary of their 'Little Grey Fergie' tractor(7.19) i/v representative of Massey Ferguson man discussing developments in their tractors (7.32) shot of four wheel drive - the '33 88' - made by International Harvester, brought over from the States to gauge reaction. c/u controls etc (8.14) ints boardroom in Ingliston House, a meeting of Show Superintendents and Judges. Tom Alder, the Secretary of the Society addresses the meeting and takes roll call (9.22) shot of the winning cattle in Romanola class (9.31) i/v judge George McIlwraith, shot of the winning cow, the photographers get their shots (10.32) Charolais Bull, winner of the President's Medal for best in breed, judged by Mr Wooden from Oxfordshire (11.03) shot of Aberdeen Angus, owned by Boots the Chemist, which won best in breed (11.31) shot of Jersey dairy cow. Captain Hazelwood, President of the Breed Society, hands over the Centenary Award (12.03) ints Poultry Tent, where judges look at contenders. First Prize given to 'Jubilee Indian Gamecock' (12.51) ints waterfowl section being judged. James Guthrie talks about judging poultry (13.48) gvs crowds at show, c/u girl wearing 'tyne tees Farming Outlook' jumper (14.06) [blank, countdown leader] (14.24) woman with T-shirt walking away from camera and into crowd (14.35) gvs show grounds (14.50) preparing the animals for the Show Ring, man washes down cow with shampoo and brushes animal's tail (15.13) gvs cattle in show ring (15.18) i/v Fraser Morrison, a local farmer and a Director of the Show's Society - he talks about the positive aspects of the Show (15.45) people eating ice cream and walking about (16.11) exts Scottish Colleges of Agriculture stand (16.25) ints experiment featuring 'Mabel the Cow' ['Model Analogue for Bovine Energy Logging'] (16.45) i/v Dr. Jim Bruce about the experiment collecting data on how changing weather conditions affect feeding requirements (17.52) Mueller stand (Dutch firm) display their system of cooling milk for use with dairy cattle, and subsequent savings on energy bills, i/v with David Wood on same (19.02) gvs sheep shearing competition, shot of Ronnie Sutherland shearing (he came 2nd) (19.43) exts Shearing Centre, crowds outside (19.51) i/v Lord Mansfield on subject of livestock allowances (20.46) Texel class sheep in ring, this is the first time they have been competitively judged at the Royal Highland (21.22) photographers gather to take pictures of sheep (21.27) shot of overall champion sheep,a half bred ewe owned by Charles Scott from Hawick (21.40) i/v Mr Scott and Mike Ainsley the breeder (22.37) shot of Hereford Bull, winner of individual interbreed overall championship (22.54) brief shot Grand Parade, featuring all breeds (23.21) shot of the dairy cow winner from Ayrshire, owned by Ian Gilmour from Maybole, presentation of award (23.32) small girl sitting on grass having a nap (23.37) gvs grand finale,horses and carriages on parade (23.53) ecs overlaid gvs grand finale (25.10)