The Gamekeeper. 1975 Documentary. A year with the keeper, from a bygone era. #SRP #gamekeeper

They don't make them like this anymore. A truly wonderful glimpse of a bygone era in fieldsports. A film full of characters and, a man at the top of his profession... One year's work, 2,000 pheasants safely reared and 1,000 shot. A documentary about the annual cycle of a keeper's life on a Wessex farm joining his life while he rears the chicks, turns them into free-flying wild birds, but persuades them not to stray, protects them from their natural enemies like foxes and poachers, and finally drives them towards the guns. The keepers: Don Ibberson began keeping in 1965, Jack Lewis began keeping in 1921; Viv Townsend began keeping in 1907. Narrator PETER FRANCE