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Title: HENS AND EGGS

Reference number: 3902

Date: 1953*

Sponsor: Scottish Joint Production Committee [SEFA and SFC]

Production company: SEFA (Dunbartonshire Group)

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.09 mins

Description: This film shows hens in the farmyard and among the stubble in the fields, together with a hen sitting on eggs and the hatching and the growth of chicks.

Shotlist: Credits Hens and Eggs (0.16) Mother and children at table for breakfast, mother puts boiled eggs for the children to eat (0.32) " Mummy, where do you get the eggs?" (0.38) Mother speaking to children (0.46) Man and boy on farm opening the latch to the 'hen house' and putting feed out for the hens, hens eating and drinking water, boy holding chickens (2.12) Farmer emptying bags of 'Chicken feed' into a small tractor, boy driving tractor into field to empty the food into the feeding troughs (3.22) Collecting eggs from the hen house, recording how many eggs each hen laid (3.52) Boy collecting goose eggs (4.19) women and children collecting eggs, putting eggs from basket into cartons and then packing them into crates (4.55) Van with Airdrie written on front, coming to collect eggs (5.25) Airdrie Egg & Poultry Packing Station, van entering station, eggs being checked against light, eggs placed on conveyor belt and sorted into different sizes and then repacked (7.13) Smart's Stores, exts. people entering, c/u of eggs for sale in shops (7.33) But all the eggs are not sent to the shops- From October until April thousands of eggs are put into incubators. Each batch takes three weeks to hatch (7.46) Man taking eggs from Incubators and sorted, they are then placed in another incubator and tilted onto their sides (8.48) Crate with chicks in it being removed from incubator, chicks are placed in a box labelled 'Live Chicks With Care' (9.11) another crate of newly hatched chicks are brought out of the incubator, boy holds chicks (9.32) Chicks placed under light in a enclosed surrounding to eat (9.43) Back to the family eating eggs, the mother talking to the little boy THE END Credits (10.09)