Horses

Series

Series Name

London Line

Issue

Issue No.

536A

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

183

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Horses

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

COI synopsis: All pedigree horses - bloodstock - derive from three Arab stallions brought over to Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The cross between the Arab, which had all the virtues except size, and the bigger horses native to Britain produced the race horse as we know it today. In fact, any a mixture of Arab blood always improves the stock. We visited an Arab stud farm in the south of England to see some of these extremely valuable and beautiful animals - all Arabian though some nine generations away from their desert origins.

Researcher Comments

Includes footage from the BBC’s "Taste For Adventure", LWE’s "Derby Day", and the COI’s "Heritage Of Islam" and "This Week In Britain, No. 952"

Local distribution only

Arabic version

Keywords

Horse racing; Animal husbandry

Written sources

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

COI Reference

MI 1257/536A

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

R.I. Phillips

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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