Rare Breeds

Series

Series Name

London Line

Issue

Issue No.

550

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

194

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Rare Breeds

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: Industrial success can bring its own problems. One of them is that modern farming has made some of the older breeds of farm animals uneconomic and they have been replaced by other breeds. Farmer Joe Henson was so concerned about the threat to some of the world’s historic breeds that he founded the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, and converted part of his own farm into a rare breeds conservation park. Today the park is stocked with more than 40 rare breeds. London Line visited the farm park to find out why the preservation of rare breeds could be vital to the future of agriculture.

Researcher Comments

NB: ‘This Week In Britain, No. 550’ ran the same story

Keywords

Agriculture; Animal husbandry

Written sources

COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 43 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1257/550

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

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