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Agriculture (47)

Veterinary Care (3)

  • Canaries to Clydesdales
    Canaries to Clydesdales
    Eugene Boyko 1977 27 min
    This documentary follows two country veterinarians through their daily rounds, from sterile clinic to farm paddock. Thirty thousand miles of house calls a year is routine for doctors Vic Demetrick and Reg Maidment, whose patients include just about any creature that hops, trots, swims or flies.
  • Epidemic Foot and Mouth Disease: Saskatchewan, 1952
    Epidemic Foot and Mouth Disease: Saskatchewan, 1952
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    Larry Gosnell 1952 16 min
    A documentary report on the 1952 outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Saskatchewan. It details the effects of the disease on livestock and explains how the epidemic was brought under control. Made for the federal Department of Agriculture.
  • Island Observed
    Island Observed
    Hector Lemieux 1966 27 min
    A film record of M.E.T.E.I. (Medical Expedition to Easter Island), one of the most unusual scientific enquiries ever launched, headed by a McGill University research team. While the film is concerned mainly with the physical condition of Easter Islanders, it also provides glimpses of island activities, a village wedding, and the famous long-faced stone sculptures.

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