All Creatures Great And Small Aka Blessing The Animals (1956)

Hereford. At Holy Trinity Church in Hereford, Vicar Prebendary Snell, an RSPCA Council member, holds a blessing of animals service. GV. Procession to church. SV. Children leading in dogs in the procession. CV. Little boy with poodle passes camera. TV. Pan across congregation standing in the churchyard with the church in the background. GV. Mongrel’s face. CU. Goat. CU. Little boy’s face, camera tilts down to budgerigar in cage which he is holding. GV. The Vicar delivering the blessing. CU. Little dog’s face peering over a man’s shoulder. SV. Choirboy, camera tilts down to kitten which he is holding under his gown. GV. Kitten’s face, it is asleep. GV. The congregation singing. LV. Looking through the fence to the service with a cat in the foreground - cat is taking no part in the proceedings. CU. Little boy produces a mouse from his pocket which runs up his jacket to his tie. (.) (Title scene G.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FUL