French Horse Meat Trade (1960)

Paris, France. CU. of a notice in French directing lorries to the platform where animals are unloaded, pan to G.V. of lorries and trailers in the courtyard of the Batignolles marshalling yard. CU. Notice “Quai Haut-Bestiaux“. GV. of railway trucks in the marshalling yard. CU. of a notice which gives the opening times of the Batignolles marshalling yard in Paris. GV. of the entrance to the yard. GV. of a butcher’s shop in Paris which deals exclusively in horse flesh, this shops is closed. High angle G.V. of the marshalling yard. GV. Across a street of the Vaugirard abattoir which deals only in the slaughter of horses. CU. of the head of a horse carved over the entrance to the abattoir, pan down to C.U. of the gates. GV. of a courtyard within the grounds of the abattoir. CU. of the name over a butcher’s shop, horse flesh being the only meat sold in the shop, pan down to the shop window, the shop is closed. Two of horse butcher’s shops in Paris. Various shots of the carcasses of horses hanging in the a