Four Footed Overcoats (1931)

Introductory intertitle reads: Dartmoor s Hotel for unwilling guests is not the only industry there here s a new one, rearing skunks for those nice collars and M, S of a man sawing wood in the open air. Another man looks on. Another man comes to show him some skunk fur. Skunks are let out of a box into a pen. They run around. Every one a thing of beauty and a joy to the owner s bank Man holds out some food to the skunks. Man in a white coat pulls a skunk from a cage. Another man seems to put something in its mouth medicine What they ate we didn t they all seemed to like it High angle shot of man mixing their food. C, U of a metal tub full of glop which man in white coat mixes with his hands. C, U of man holding out a tray of the food and laughing. M, S of food being given to the skunks. Some of the skunks climb up the wire fence to get at the food. Was an item in Pathe Pictorial issue number 697. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ