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Title: I, TO THE HILLS

Reference number: 6697

Date: 1952*/1953*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 33.00 mins

Description: A year on the family farm. General views of the animals during winter and springtime, harvest, grouse shooting, sheep shearing, and peat cutting.

Shotlist: title (0.12) panorama wintery landscape (0.27) November. The Rams Go Out gvs as rams are led to their field (1.33) Christmas Fare turkeys are fed, haystacks in background. One of the turkey's displays its tail, fanning the white feathers out (1.59) In Winter's Grip sheep and cattle in the snow (3.10) Spring comes late gvs black cattle on the hills. They feed by licking metal poles (?) Shots of little calves (5.29) Easter Brings New Life [slightly off at start] gvs bird, a lapwing (6.39) grassy banks covered in daffodils, family walking their dogs. c/u hens and chicks on grass. c/u newborn lamb being hand fed by bottle. shot of curlew. c/u as baby birds hatch from eggs in nest (9.01) gvs sheep on hillside, newborn lambs (10.34) a woman walks down hillside using staff - she holds a lamb in one hand (10.40) many newborn piglets suckle their mother (11.21) gvs as more piglets run around barnyard - a little boy tries to chase and catch them in his hands without much success (11.49) Peat two men cut peat by hand and lay slabs out to dry (12.57) Herds Work c/u branding rams horn with hot iron (13.34) man sharpens the cutting blades of his shears. gvs men shearing sheep by hand, rolling and tying the sheared fleeces, piling them in a huge sack suspended by poles - two men get inside this sack and stamp down fleeces to fit (15.36) Hay and Silage tractor pushes cut grass along field. Men fork this over to form a huge hay rick - first they construct a small wooden frame forming the basic structure for the haystack (17.02) grass is forked out in sun and a man waters the crop using a watering can - this will form silage (17.34) Grouse gvs a grouse hunt - various men crouch low on heathery moorland and take shots at low flying grouse - the smoke from their guns is clearly visible. When finished shooting, the men wave flags in warning, gvs as they pick dead grouse up, aided by their dogs who catch some of the birds in their mouths (21.10) gvs as the hunting party gather at hut on moor after the shoot - women and children enjoy a picnic. The dead grouse are laid out and counted before being loaded onto back of truck (22.20) Harvest gvs combine harvester cutting crop of golden wheat. Men gather stooks of hay. Huge haystack is transported on back of truck (one crashes to the ground when they try to move it onto the ground) gvs as huge haystack is created using bales of hay. gvs the packing machine at work, making the hay into neat cubes. Debris is collected and sacks of sheep feed are made up and loaded onto back of lorry (26.16) To Market l/s cattle being rounded up on hillside and down to the road (28.08) sheep are herded by shepherd and dogs, from field to pen and then into truck bound for market (31.12) Once more the rams go out the cycle begins again, gvs rams moving out onto the hillside by shepherd and his dog (32.48) The End (33.00)