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Title: COW MILKING

Reference number: 9264

Date: 1953* / 1954*

Director: [filmed by Dr Iain Dunnachie]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 5.09 mins

Description: A crazy cow chasing comedy!

Shotlist: [no title] gvs landscape (0.13) shot of dairy cow in meadow, enjoying grazing on grass, woman [Mrs Dunnachie] approaches it carrying two glass milk bottles and tries in vain to get cow to stay still, c/u cow's udders (0.53) c/u Mrs Dunnachie counting the udders and looking in puzzlement at the glass bottles in her hands (1.09) [slightly oof] shot of cow grazing (1.14) Mrs Dunnachie approaches the cow again with a metal milk churn, various shots of cow getting patted intercut with c/u udders above the metal milk canister, cow flicks its tale in Mrs Dunnachie’s face (2.26) Mrs Dunnachie tries moving cow's tail up and down, looking expectantly at the udders (2.57) general shot field, with flock of white geese and a couple of young boys running about. A man plays bagpipes (3.30) A puzzled Mrs Dunnachie watches the bagpiper, and tries to copy the way he moves his fingers to extract milk from the udders (with no luck!) (4.08) shot of baby calf feeding on mother's milk - suddenly all becomes clear to Mrs Dunnachie (4.35) Mrs Dunnachie at last manages to milk the cow successfully, before it wanders off and she has to chase it across the field carrying the milk churn (5.09)