# Today's Chicks

1950s footage of baby chicks and chick hatcheries, both more mechanized hatcheries and those that are more manually maintained. Footage of chickens being tested for disease through various methods of blood testing. VS on Jordan Bros. Hatchery in Bridgewater, Virginia. 02:21:05:29 VS large groups of chickens and roosters. 02:23:39:09 VS man takes chickens one by one out of cage then put them on rotating wheel with wing restrainers so birds can’t move, another man takes blood samples from the birds; when birds pass test man puts on identification leg band. 02:24:57:22 CU man squeezes drop of blood out of chickens wing and drips it into a test tube. 02:25:04:11 VS in laboratory with women in lab coats working with large quantity of blood samples and clear test tubes. 02:27:15:19 Stern looking man carefully inspects a chicken, holding it in his hands. 02:28:45:20 CU Box of cockerels with label on box “U.S. Record of Performance”; CU box opened filled with cockerel chicks. 02:29:42:19 CU over secretaries shoulder typing on typewriter on carbon copy paper; woman pulls paper out of typewriter and separates original from carbon copy. 02:29:52:15 VS woman in front of type writer creates punch cards; machine mechanically sorting punch cards into different slots; IBM prints out information; CU document produced “S.R.O.P Production and Pedigree Report United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Animal Industry Animal Husbandry The National Poultry Improvement Plan” 02:30:27:12…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1950
- By: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Motion Picture Service, Office of Information
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0821_Todays_Chicks_02_20_22_00)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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