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FOOD RESEARCH footage

221311          21:55:00 - 22:07:57            1960’s                        USA      COL      SD       

Miracles From Agriculture (Very good!!!)
Supermarket parking lot w/ cars.  Int. from HA w/ people shopping.  Pan across from clothes to food & check out counters.
21:55:41  Title sequence over farms.
21:56:01  Agriculture research farm & gathering samples of fruit.
  Four-row planter; farm workers picking cabbage & crating; picking beans.  Potato harvester & loading directly into truck into boxes.
21:57:23  Man in car in field talking on radio telephone.  Farm workers picking & man inspecting.  Large celery packing machine w/ conveyor belts & crating
.  Crates onto truck; crates into large vacuum coolers & ice water used on sweet corn.  Carrots, beans & sorting on conveyor belts.  Women workers bagging.  Radishes & automatic packing.
21:59:26  Large beef cattle in feed lot, tracking shot.  RR used to feed cattle.  Turkeys in large pen; Chicken on meat hooks & into washing machine.  Ice onto chickens & packing into truck.  Boxes on large conveyor onto train.  Trucks on highway past camera.  Aerial shot of large warehouses; trucks backing into loading dock & unloading & inspecting celery, oranges & moving crates w/ forklift into cooler. 
22:01:58  Scientist studying apples in lab
.  Woman at large circular sorting machine for potatoes before making into instant mashed potatoes.  Large potato processing machines, dehydrated potato sheets & then broken & packaged. (Instant mash)
22:03:09  Wrapped rolls before baking; mechanical fried chickens onto frozen food trays & frozen.  Woman & mixer w/ various products.  Women in lab working on powdered whole milk that will dissolve in fresh water & taste like fresh whole milk.  Various glass lab equipment, woman watching.  Vitamins, films & fibers from starch, dextran made from sugar.
22:04:59  Cotton fabrics modeled.  Manequin in store window; Modeling coats.
22:05:35  Ext. supermarket, shoppers leaving.  Unloading truck w/ boxes, meat
.  Pan over interior of supermarket & couple shopping for tinned hams, others pushing carts.  Couple & baby. 
22:07:09  Students in cafeteria taking plates on trays.  Woman feeding baby food to child in high chair. CU happy baby.  The End.  (VERY GOOD COLOR)

220848          09:33:25 - 09:44:03            1948               USA      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 Laboratory test for nutritive value of foods using lab animals - chick weighed on scales - rat fed with tube. Lab cultures of micro-organisms. Chemistry experiments - vitamins.
09:39:13 Textile and clothing research. Elasticity of wool - knitted fabrics. Material stretched. Elderly lady checking seams of finished dress. Lab experiments to find out best ways of sewing for greatest durability.  Buttonholes tested  by machine. Pocket testing. Design of housedresses and aprons for the housewife.
Pattern cut. Woman hand sewing garment. Woman models dress designed for ease of movement.
Machine for soiling lengths of material - this is for  testing detergent.
Washing machines tested with soiled material  -  washed laundry tested with reflected light.

X LN 505-080           10:10:52 - 10:20:38            1960               USA      COL      SD       

The Orange: Fruit of Life
Presented by Minute Maid Corporation / Prod. by Robert Leahey Studios, St. Petersburg, Florida
Globe & animation w/ lightning, rain, sun onto orange tree.  Trading caravan, Roman soldiers, etc.  Columbus sailing & spread oranges through out FloridaFable.
10:12:42  Costumed spanish conquistadors & women walk in orange grove. MCU eating orange. (gag?)
10:13:35  Indians in war paint crawling thru orange grove & tropical jungle, running along.  Doing dance to drum.  Seminole Indians in native dress.  Others in war paint and with feather beside swamp.
10:14:27  St. Petersburg (?) and carriage, tourist sites and woman picking oranges in long gown.  Blacks loading barrels of citrus on barge and dancing.  At market. 
10:15:12  Picking oranges from ladders and putting into barrels.  Complete orchard of dead trees due to freezing weather.  Old farms.  Blacks planting and watering trees.  Steam train pulling passenger car and horse drawn wagon of orange crates along side and loaded.
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?  Laboratory checking samples.  Department of Agriculture USDA taking samples and testing  Scientists working.  Abrupt ending.

 

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