Royal Welsh Show

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2252

Date Released

31 Jul 1972

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Welsh Show. DESCRIPTION: The theme of this year’s show is the soil and its uses. Another aspect - to bring closer together the farmer and the city dweller. There was a record entry of sheep and cattle this year, show jumping, sheep shearing and the latest in agricultural equipment. SHOTLIST: GV people entering show grounds. SV Princess Alexandra being greeted. GV Hereford bulls parading. GV face of bull No 1076. SV bulls being paraded. SV Alexandra pan down to calf in pen. SV people looking at saddles. SV pan type of saddles. GV crowds watching horse jumping. SV horse jumps two fences, crowds watching. Ponies being judged. CU pony. SV TV pan farm equipment including chain saws. 2 CUs chain saw cutting through log, sign sheep shearing. GV people watching. SV farmer shearing sheep. SV people watching. CU sheep’s head held between farmer’s arms and leg pan to sheep shearing. SV onlookers. SV farmer putting shorn sheep in pan, pan to pile of wool. LV farmer picks up pile of wool and lays it flat.

Keywords

Animals; Exhibitions and shows

Locations

Wales; Builth Wells

Card file number

98332

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Reginald William Smith

Length of story (in feet)

122

Story extras:

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