Today's Horse Farm: Sun-Up to Sun-Down (1942)
1942 · Ephemeral film · 11 min
Synopsis
Educational film about horse farming. Discusses feeding, grooming, shoeing, and sanitation. One horse has been given an explicitly racist name. Whinneys, snorts, etc. are included in the sound effects." Educational Film Guide, 1953.
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★★★ · They Named the Horse What? · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-02-18
A Frith farm film with horsies and moo-moo-cows, all of whom have names. Calling one horse "Black Mammy" is really unfortunate. Anyway, we learn how to groom and shoe a horse, that a horse needs a dog companion, and colts drink horse milk once an hour. As usual, narrator Don McNamara talks to the animals. Of course, he's not there as he's reading a script over MOS footage, but maybe the young audience liked it. The film opens with a cuckoo clock and birds chirping.
