The Royal Smithfield Show

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2480
Date Released
12 Dec 1976
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The National Cat Club Show
  2. 2Fish Farm
  3. 3City Farm
  4. 4The Royal Smithfield Show

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Royal Smithfield Show. DESCRIPTION: Over seventy-five thousand visitors were expected at this year’s Smithfield Show to view the best of the farming world - from livestock to machinery. SHOTLIST: CU sheep’s face. MCU another. MCU sign ‘Royal Smithfield Show’. GV Earls Court. MS people entering show, pan. GV pull focus to see exhibition. Two people grooming a heifer. MS man blow-drying a heifer. MS man. MCU heifer with long horns. MS man grooming. CU heifer’s face. MS woman grooming crossbred heifer. MS another heifer out to arena. MS yet another out to arena. MS back shot heifers into arena. MS line of heifers in ring. MS farmers watching. MS heifers walked round ring. MS heifer past. GV cattle in ring. MS heifer. MS another. GV cattle in arena pan to machinery. MS Massey Ferguson tractor on stand pan to engine. MS man with information telephone. MS another tractor (David Brown) tilt up. MCU man in cab. MS Massey Ferguson tractor. MCU man in cab. MS New Holland combine harvester tilt to people. MS man into cab. MCU man in cab. MS front of tractor. MS new milking machine, man puts suction cup onto artificial teats (2 shots). MCU cooling bottle. MS suction cups come off teats. MS row of judges pan to pigs in ring. MS pigs. MCU pigs being judged. MS judge watching pigs pan to pigs. CU pig’s face. MS woman watching sheep being groomed. MCU sheep being groomed tilt up to man grooming. MS sheep in line being judged (2 shots).
Keywords
Vehicles; Agriculture; Communications; Animal husbandry; Animals; Inventions and discoveries; Exhibitions and shows
Locations
Earls Court
Card file number
76/224
Credits:
Camera
Denis White
Commentator
Leonard Martin
Length of story (in feet)
252
Story extras:
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