Day Old Chicks Can Fly!

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1922
Date Released
4 Apr 1966
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Day Old Chicks Can Fly!. DESCRIPTION: At Andover, eighteen thousand baby chicks were hatched and packed, to be sent to a state poultry farm in Hungary, which will eventually be stocked with fifty four thousand British birds. The chicks leave Andover in air conditioned transports bound for London Airport. When they arrive in Hungary they are a little over twelve hours old. SHOTLIST: Key scene. CU chicks. CU eggs transferred to conveyor belt. CU ditto. MS women inspecting eggs. CU ditto. CU tray of eggs picked up to put into large incubator. MS eggs put into incubator. MS man closes door of incubator showing sign on door Big J single-stage incubator system. MCU man looking at graph. CU ditto. MS man opens door of incubator. MCU man pulls out tray of chicks hatched in incubator. CU chicks. CU ditto. GV chicks being sorted out into males and females. MS ditto. MS tray of chicks into packing department. MCU chicks packed into containers. MCU ditto. CU ditto. MCU ventilated lid put in place. GV lorries leaving for airport. Slip pan. GV lorries parked on tarmac next to plane. MLS containers moved from lorry to aircraft. MS interior aircraft as boxes are packed. MS ditto. MS exterior aircraft boxes carried into plane. MS men checking containers. GV plane taxiing on tarmac.
Keywords
Children; Animals
Locations
Andover; Hampshire
Card file number
90953
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
155
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Day Old Chicks Can Fly!', British Movietone News Issue No. 1922, 4 Apr 1966. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/26387 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)