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Rural life in Cornwall in 1950: dairy and sheep farming in Cornwall, very good horse ploughing, cattle market and market day for spades and teapots. The FWV logo. The title. Waves crashing against a rocky shore. By the coast, rocks and a pebble beach. As seen from above, cliffs, white water waves crashing against rocks. Another view of calm water, stony beach and rocks, and an irregular coastline. A rocky cliff by coastline. Folded rock formation. More folded rock; pan upwards to the top of the cliff. A rocky cliff. Calm rushing sea, water flowing around rocks. Wide area of calm sea; pan left to a beach, a cliff, and land with fields and a farm house; pan all the way around to a valley. Pan down from a cliff to show rocks being transported in a cart on a rail line. A mine or a quarry; a crane lifts a large rock in the middle of a flat area with stones on the ground. The crane lifts up the rail cart with rocks in it, past men and past a cliff; steam blows from the crane. Carts take huge stones along through rocky land. Pan left over hills with white tops and tree-covered ground, over to a building. The while hills with a grass valley between. Pan left over a cloudy sky; there is a church below, and many ruined stone buildings and towers. One of the stone towers; plants growing around it. Barren, slanted trees. A group of sheep on a hillside field. Rocks on a grassy field. Sheep eating below a tall rock. Horses on patches of grass in rocky land. A large area of trees, with a few fields in the middle of them. Trees being blown in the wind. A closer view of a slanted tree. A huge number of leafless trees; pan down to show sheep in a field. Many trees around white houses; pan right and down to more white buildings and a woman walking between them holding a bucket in each hand. A young man pushes a wheelbarrow towards a white rural house. A young woman walks out of a door. A stone cottage with geese and chickens outside. Barren trees; men pick flowers in a field. The men picking the flowers. Trees with white blossom. More trees. Cows underneath the same. A herd of cattle walk over a field with hedge barriers, with forest in the distance; the farmer moves the cows forwards. Cows on a grassy, banked hillside. Cows on a hill in the winter. A man leading a horse along a field. Two men with two horses which plough the field. The men taking the horses past bare trees to plough. A small truck drives along a road past a wall with farm buildings on its other side. It moves along past cows toward and through an arched gap in a wall. Pigs on mud next to a farm house. Men carry a container bin past the pigs and tip it into their trough. Two women inside the farm house, with a basket of clothes. The younger woman takes the basket out of the house, past drying sheets, over to two older women. An old woman knitting, by a hanging sheet. A farmer walks up a driveway, with farm houses in the background and a field with a gate; he meets a man pulling a sheep on a cart past him down the drive. The farmer walks over to look at the sheep; the man with cart hands him a lamb. The farmer with a sheep in an open field. The farmer with a lamb, the sheep by it. The man turns the sheep on its side. Close-up of a farmer with a flat cap and a tie. A close-up shot of the sheep's head. The farmer puts a lamb on the ground and puts the ewe down. The sheep licks the lamb. The farmer walks away along the field, pausing briefly to look back. Farm houses below a hill field; pan left to bare trees in the foreground with forest behind; pan further to a white house on a hill. A man shuts the door of the house and steps outside, between cats at his feet. Many bulls in a field with a short stone wall. A bull rubbing itself against a fence. A farmer waves a cane, a fence behind him. The bull walks backwards. A dog, which the bull walks past out of shot, barks and waves its tail.