Goat Farm (1956)

M/S of a herd of goats being rounded up by a man in a goat farm field in Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. M/S of some goats eating out of buckets and being milked at the same time (how intrusive!) in a farmyard; a man in a suit, Gilbert Harris, comes round the corner of some buildings, leading a goat in each hand; a farmhand follows with another goat that starts to eat as he milks it. M/S of the goats being milked; one of them leaps out of shot as a milker tries to stop it. C/U of a woman milker in a headscarf; a goat eating from a bucket, then sniffing his milker. Commentator explains the present herd at this goat farm “resulted from crossing an Old English billy with a Welsh Hill nanny and adding a strain of Swiss Toggenberg“. M/S and C/Us of a goat being milked; we are told each one produces a gallon of milk a day. Nice C/U of the goat baa-ing (or whatever it is goats do) - natural sound. M/S and C/U of Gilbert posing for the camera with two goats, another nice ’baa-ing’ shot. C/U of a spani