Apprentice Butchers (1960)

M/S of a large hall filled with wooden work benches where entrants dressed in white overalls in the butchers ’Apprentice of the Year’ contest at Edmonton, London, are cutting sides of meat; meat is hanging from hooks on the left hand side of the room. C/Us and M/Ss of Brian Smith cutting a shoulder of lamb while an examiner, Mr Triebel, looks on and makes notes. C/Us of another contestant, Peter Brooke, arranging some meat chops on a tray, and adding sprigs of parsley around them. M/Ss and C/Us of entrant Tony J Reed cutting a side of pork with a saw, as another examiner, Mr Tuplin watches and makes notes. Commentator says “With the apprenticeship system losing favour in the last few years few people realise that an apprenticeship in this trade even exists! Yet the eight finalists competing at Edmonton, North London represent eleven hundred in England and Wales“. C/Us of diplomas being rolled up on a table and tied with ribbon; then of two silver cups standing on the table while diplomas are hande