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X 221144 08:29:31
- 08:45:27 1942 B/W SD
A Nation’s Meat (1942) Pt. 1 of 2
INCLUDING:
08:35:11 Farmer at desk writing & listens to market report on
radio. Diagram showing methods of
selling livestock. Chicago
stockyard, high shot, men on horseback buying & selling next to pens. Livestock arrive by truck & train,
farmers wait in office. Hay wagon
makes rounds. Commission men
representing feeder farmer negotiates w/ buyer, both on horseback among
cattle. Cows into scale house for
weighing.
08:40:38 INT abattoir, meat packing plant, sides of beef hang from
hooks & inspected, sprayed & wrapped then pulled along ceiling rails
into cooler or chiller; government stamp
applied after 24hrs. Whole lamb
carcasses wrapped. Veal hides left
on until just before cloth wrapping added. Pork sides inspected & stamped.
08:43:15
220848 09:33:25
- 09:44:03 1948 col Sd
Research
for Better Living
A Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service film on research work
performed by the U.S.D.A. in the fields of food and nutrition, textiles and
clothing, housing and household equipment, and family economics.
09:34:01 Chief of the Bureau Hazel Spively speaks from her desk explains the
work of the bureau.
Exterior Research centre - interiors women working in laboratory carrying out
experiments on fruit preserved in jars - some injected with bacteria.
09:35:25 Cooking experiment - braising meat with and without water. Woman holding cooked turkey leg.
Testing different potatoes. Line
of people eating frozen strawberries to test for flavour etc. Lab experiment to discover the
tenderness of a berry. In a school
kitchen like laboratory - large amounts of carrots prepared for creamed
carrots. Children testing food - eating at table,
drinking from school milk bottles.
09:37:48
220848 09:44:03
- 09:50:51 1948 col Sd
Research
for Better Living [Part 2]
A Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service film on research work
performed by the U.S.D.A. in the fields of food and nutrition, textiles and
clothing, housing and household equipment, and family economics.
INCLUDING:
09:44:03
Testing cake recipe - to test
baking performance of electric ovens. Woman pouring cake mix. Cakes into oven. Finished cakes
judged. Home freezers tested. Kitchen like area where fuel efficiency
of gas and electric cooking is tested. Woman taking bottled / canned fruit from preserving pan.
09:45:41
X LN
505-080 10:10:52 - 10:20:38 1960 Col Sd
The Orange: Fruit of Life
INCLUDING:
10:16:2? Steam train runby. Large Orange Factory preparing oranges for frozen orange juice. Aerials
of orange groves, reservoir,
10:17:4? Woman making orange juice from frozen concentrate. Minute Maid 6oz can shown. Touring factory. Washing oranges on belt to graders,
sorting and cut oranges. Large
tanks for removing water to leave concentrate. Refrigeration equipment, quick freezing, assembly line of
cans.
10:19:5?
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