Atomic Milk (1957)

Windscale and Egremont, Cumberland. GV. Windscale atomic station, herd of cows which ate contaminated grass are seen in foreground. SV. One of the cows, station in background. SV. Top of atomic tower from which radioactive dust escaped. GV. Farmer Bill Hewitson wearing cap showing a friend how near his farm is to the atomic station. Station is seen over the gate in background. SCU. Farmer Hewitson’s cows eating grass. SV. Interior shot, Mr Stan Ritson seated on couch with his wife looking at newspaper cutting of himself. He was one of the team who helped to put fire out in the atomic pile and he became radioactive. CU. Newspaper cutting telling his story. GV. Herd of cows coming in for milking at Atkinson’s farm, atomic station in background. SV. Cows going into milking shed. SV. Interior, milkman attaching electrical milking apparatus to cow. CU. Cow’s head. SV. Milking machine in operation. SV. Pan, milk lorry carrying churns of contaminated milk to the Milk Marketing Board, at Egremont for dumping. Came