News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.

88

Date Released

4 Aug 1921

Length of issue (in feet)

750

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Yesterday and to-day No.1
• 2. In the Studio of the Hon. Neville Lytton
• 3. A few moments with Alice Brady.
• 4. Pheasant Rearing. Taken at the East Essex Game Farm
• 5. Some Novelty Sunshades -
• 6. Proverb Competition: This Cartoon No.10 represents a well-known Proverb, and is the last of the Competition.
• 7. A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss"
• 8. The latest fashionable pet. The Mongoose

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 8

Summary

Summary - pheasant-rearing in Essex.
NoS synopsis: ‘Pheasant Rearing. Taken at the East Essex Game Farm’ intertitle with a still of the farm in the background. ' A view of the rearing ground _ These hens act as foster mothers and are seen being taken off the nests for feeding etc -'. Two men work in a field scattered with small hutches. Two men - one lifts a pheasant out of a hutch and passes it to the other who ties the bird to a stake and lets it down. They repeat this process along a row of hutches. Close up of a man lifting a hutch lid and a pheasant escapes leaving a nest full of a dozen eggs. The man lifts another lid to find as the hen escapes that some chicks have hatched. He picks them up and puts them in a box that the camera pans to show. It is already full of chicks. ‘Three minutes old - Note how much larger the young pheasant is compared to the egg -' Close up of a young pheasant and egg in the palm of a man’s hand. ‘Two hours old - Ready for the rearing field -'. Close up of much larger chicks scrabbling in the dirt in front of a pen with a hen in. Close up of a tray full of chicks. A hand picks up one to show to the camera. Close up of young pheasants behind netting. There are six hens and one cock. ‘Packing pheasants’ eggs for dispatch.' A woman in a smock and hat walks outside a building carrying two baskets full of eggs. She sits on top of a barrel and wraps an egg in straw. Close up as she packs the eggs and straw into a tall basket and closes the lid. It is labelled "With Care. Live Pheasant’s Eggs. The East Essex game Farm, Wivenhoe".

Keywords

Agriculture; Birds

Locations

England; Essex

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly   28 July 1921, p33.
The Bioscope   11 August 1921, p52.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for Synopsis

Credits:

Production Co.

Around the Town Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

174

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Notes

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