Out for Easter

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1716
Date Released
23 Apr 1962
Date submitted
12 Apr 1962
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Out for Easter
  2. 2Larks with Sharks
  3. 3New Rig for Old Ship
  4. 4Fun in the Scrum!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Easter Story - Hatching Eggs and Baby Elephant. DESCRIPTION: Easter time is the time for eggs, and it’s time for this lot to be taken to the incubator. Now, just turn on the heat, and in due course the chicks are out for Easter! Determining the sex of the young chicks is done by Japanese in this hatchery at Diss in Norfolk, where 80,000 are hatched every day. And here’s quite a chick, a 170 pound baby elephant, born in an American Zoo. The youngster is not too shaky on his pins, considering he’s only 10 minutes old! SHOTLIST: Hatching Eggs - Out For Easter - Trays of eggs are put into incubators. CU of dials. Chicks hatching. Sexing the chicks done by Japanese workers in a hatchery in Diss, Norfolk. 80,000 chicks are hatched every day - 95 ft. Baby Elephant - A Siamese elephant gives birth to 170lb baby in an American Zoo. Shots showing baby when only 10 minutes old - 31 ft.
Keywords
Animals
Locations
United States of America; Norfolk; Diss
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
84216
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Ronald E. Collins
Length of story (in feet)
126
Story extras:
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