Learning on ScreenRare Breeds
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Agriculture is Britain’s biggest industry, with a turnover of nearly 6 thousand-million pounds a year. But, as usual industrial success brings its own problems and one of them is that modern farming has made some of the older breeds of farm animals uneconomic and many of them have been replaced by other breeds. Gloucestershire farmer Joe Henson was so concerned about the threat to some of the world’s historic breeds that in 1973 he helped found 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 some of which date right back to the Stone Age. Diana MacLean visited the farm park to see some of these exotic creatures for herself and find out why the preservation of rare breeds could be vital to the future of agriculture.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes an interview with farmer Joe Henson of Cotswold Farm Park, Guiting Power, Gloucestershire. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version. ‘London Line, No. 550’ ran the same story
- Keywords
- Agriculture; Animal husbandry
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
BUFVC Special Collections TWIB Files
- COI Reference
- MI 936/967
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Presenter
- Diana MacLean
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Support services
- Jennifer Lucas
- Presenter
- Jumoke Debayo
- Presenter
- Maria Almendra
- Cutter
- Mike Willcox
- Producer
- Patrick Brawn
- Director
- Patrick Wyand
- Camera
- Platypus Films
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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