Entertaining treatment of bureaucracy at its worst, based on the short story “pigs is pigs” by Ellis parker Butler. A stationmaster, who goes by the rules and insists that “guinea pigs is pigs” and therefore must travel at a higher freight rate than domestic animals, is left to content with a rapidly expanding guinea pig populations and the pater warfare of the railway administration.
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ACMI Identifier
507346
Subject categories
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Bureaucracy
Colour
Colour
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16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)