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SSPCA inspectors rescue a sheep from a cliff face and return it to its owner. (clip) [74958092]
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Title: CLIFF RESCUE, a
Reference number: 3017
Date: 1955c
Director: filmed by W.S. Dobson
Production company: [ Scottish Productions Ltd]
Sound: silent
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.40 mins
Description: A promotional film illustrating the work of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Shotlist: A sheep is stranded on a dangerous cliff on the Isle of Lewis. The local SSPCA Inspector is called out to help (0.24) gvs Stornoway harbour (0.44) policeman alerts SSPCA inspector and they travel by van to the scene of the incident (2.14) the Inspector is lowered down cliff face by rope, ties rope to sheep and both are hauled back up cliff by shepherd and helpers (4.24) sheep is returned to the fold. The End (4.40)
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