Village Of Rabbits (1949)

Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unknown or unclear. Quirky footage of rabbits everywhere in village of Havering, Essex. A woman in a rabbit fur coat and hat walks up to the front of a village shop. Another be-furred woman pushing a pram with a little girl joins her. The first woman looks in the pram and we see two black bunnies in there. She strokes them with her rabbit-fur mittens. The little girl is wearing a pixie hood and has her hands in a white rabbit-fur muff. The first woman is carrying a basket with a white rabbit in it (she also has rather ratted hair - couldn’t she have brushed it for the Pathe camera?!). They all go inside the shop. C/U of sign above the door reading ’Butcher’s’. Inside, the butcher brings a dead rabbit out from under the counter - the first woman gives a horrified reaction and strokes the white rabbit in her basket. Two women in fur coats walk along a road. A man and woman (husband and wife?) looking over their garden railings discuss th