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The 16mm film is not a packaged production but contains filming of several aspects of farming -  Fish Farm, Orchids, Eggs, Poultry, Vegetables, Pigs. There is no audio. Details of the footages are as follows:
1) Fish Farm:
a) Men seting up net to fish, transfer fish another net;
b) Lobster in water, prawns in pail;
c) Fish tanks - man squirting some liquid from hand-held gadget into tanks;
d) Close up of fish in tanks;
e) Man releasing some fish in waters;
f) Man rolling in fishing net;
2) Orchids:
a) Woman taking photos of orchids plants on display - hanging from horizontal pole, and of two other women;
b) Watering orchids;
c) On display, with some hanging from poles, trellis, others on ground;
3) Eggs:
a) Holding a needle like gadget against small slit in egg;
b) Whole tray of eggs in front as man works on them;
c) Dot on egg, hold against light from gadeget held in hand;
d) In laboratory - few persons working on different tasks;
4) Poultry:
a) Taking specimen from hens and smear on test glass to see through microscope;
b) Jabbing under wings of hens with syringe, dabbing with pencil-like gadget;
c) Hens roaming on ground inside shed; drinking from round contraptions on ground; eating from ground or from bell-like contraptions suspended above ground;
d) Steel pipes running horizontally - round and bell-like contraptions hang from them;
e) Hens in coops, one in each cubicle;
5) Vegetables:
a) Long bean plans, cucumber plants with several hanging from plants;
6) Pigs:
a) Man dipping finger in some liquid, then dabs at pigs, puts small gadget on board, reads from screen;
b) Several pigs lying on side;
c) Black pigs - one in one cubicle;
7) In Laboratory:
a) Man with gadget, looking at needle; another man pouring liquid in sto several trays;
b) Woman studying slide through microscope; another working with yellow colour liquid;
c) Several white small round containers in a tray - needle moving up and down into one, when it comes up whole tray moves;
d) Man blowing into tube, puts it into another tube;
e) Two men taking something from fridge', put through blender;
f) Another looking at slide through special lens;
g) Scale - needle moves;
h) Pulling 'intestine' blown up from gadget'
I) Sices of meat cut like ham.