Film

De strijd tegen de bruine rat

Polygoon-Profilti (producent)

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Overview of the control of the brown rat, because of the voraciousness of this animal, in the village of Midwoud and images of research into the effect of rat poison by laboratory staff of the Plant Protection Service in Wageningen. SHOTS: - A number of gentlemen are meeting, sitting at a table, in the presence of the mayor of Midwoud, J.H. Avis; - A call for volunteers to distribute rat poison is put up; - A number of men leave the town hall, boxes of rat poison under their arms, and set off; the poison is placed in various places: near a henhouse, in a meadow, under roof tiles, in a haystack(?), between the roof beams of a pigsty; - Two rats scurry about on a bag of grain; - The remains of a rat-infested roof are also visible.), between the roof beams of a pigsty; - pictures of beams and rafters eaten by rats; - two rats scurrying about on a sack of grain; - remnants of a sack of grain eaten by rats; - laboratory assistants carry out chemical research in a laboratory; - in Midwoud, one of the poisoners removes a dead rat from under a roof tile; - dead rats are thrown on a pile; - a poster calls for rat control.

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