Reel

Cattle For Formosa

Cattle For Formosa
Clip: 354189_1_1
Year Shot: 1956 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1620
Original Film: 029-055-02
HD: N/A
Location: San Francisco, California
Timecode: 00:01:32 - 00:02:33

Counsel General Ti K Chang of Formosa accepts on behalf of Nationalist China a shipment of livestock donated by stock breeders of several western states for the rehabilitation and development of the island. 4 - pure bred goats 5 - thoroughbred cows and a few Rocky Mountain canaries. In all there are 78 head of livestock headed for a new life, but there is no complaints about the fodder from this sea going barnyard. Establishing shot - Ti K Chang and maybe a veterinarian checking out mules ears and shaking hands. CUS - The head of a bearded goat peering out from between a pair of legs. CUS - A cow is being lifted by a crane on to the ship. MS - Two animal handlers have their hands full trying to get a couple of mules aboard ship via the gangplank, finely they get the mules on board. MS - Pigs, huddled together. CUS - Goats. MS - Hay being piled aboard the ship. CUS - Mules eating hay.