Synopsis
One of a series of educational films directed and shot by Victor Jurgens and released under the name "This World of Ours", this film "Sheep Ranch Country" focuses on the people of Southeastern Australia. Copyright 1949. Opening titles: Educational Film Library - Sheep Ranch Country (:06-:50). Country of Australia. It's sparsely populated. Broad rolling plains. Sheep on the great plains. Clouds in the sky. Pastures for dairy cattle. Creamery, a mechanical churn (:51-2:41). Butter is packaged by workmen. Wheat farms. Horses drag a man on a makeshift tractor who tends to his field. A family sits and eats dinner. The children cut their food. Men ride horses. Children watch. Rabbit proof fences are checked. Sheep in the field. Dogs help round them up (2:42-5:07). Men sit around a campfire at night, another plays an accordion. Sheep are corralled. Men round up their sheep for shearing. A dog jumps and climbs over sheep. Shearing of sheep, electric clippers are used (5:08-7:28). Sheep get branded. A grade of wool is pressed into a bale and loaded onto a truck. Bales are stamped. Quality of each bale is also indicated. Truck drives off with numerous bales of wool. The bales are loaded into freight cars to be shipped to other parts of the country as well as other countries. A town where farmers do sheep trading and shopping (7:29-9:19). Sheep move around. Beef cattle are sold at auction. Men observe the cattle. An auction is held. Families watch fine steers. A cattle fair. Cattle is…
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 20 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Sheep
- Ranch Country
- 1949
- Southeastern Austrailia
- Stock Footage
- Periscope Film
