Trick Dogs (1956)

Benson, Oxfordshire. M/S of some cream-coloured puppies and an adult dog (Labradors? Golden Retrievers?) in an enclosure; they stop tearing round to watch three corgis scamper past outside the cage, pulling a small covered wagon containing two grey rabbits (I love Colour Pictorials!). Various shots of the corgis, Brag, Roddy and Pip, trotting along and pulling the wagon. C/U of breeder-trainers John and Mary Holmes who are encouraging the dogs to run towards them in a field. M/Ss as the corgis arrive and are petted by the couple; they wear matching outfits of felt ’hunting’ hats, tweedy jackets, kilts and knee-length socks. The rabbits are taken out of the wagon and chained to a weight; C/U of them sitting there with noses a-twitching. Commentator tells us John and Mary take their travelling act to carnivals, fetes and agricultural shows. M/S as John leads a dog, Fahmi the Saluki, into a run; the dog then leaps through a hoop mounted over a podium where other dogs and a goat are standing. John