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BEEF INDUSTRY footage


220457          03:12:59 - 03:22:47            1919   B/W    Si

Cutting Up

Preparing and producing meat cuts from live animals.

Chopping halves of pork in two; sawing ribs by hand.  Loins pulled, then spare ribs.  Ham cut w/ band saw.

03:14:20  Picture of various cuts of beef.  Sides of beef hanging.  Women boxing & packaging tins.  Wilson & Co.

03:15:07  Sawing meat (Blacks & Whites working together), production line.

03:15:41  Cutting pieces of meat by hand.  Hole soldered close in can.  Cans on conveyor belt.

03:16:23  Lard shovelled & churned, then cut into squares by hand & packaged, women smiling & laughing. 

03:17:10  Man cutting carcass w/ large axe. Scraping;  Brushing inside of hanging carcasses.

03:17:39  Cattle, cows in stockyard, buyers standing & walking on fences.

03:18:11  Carcasses hang in refrigerated area.  Ham, leg chopped off.  Hanging cow carcasses hacked in two vertically.

03:18:56  Pigs out of railroad car; men sitting around & on top; into pens at stockyard.  Cattle tight in pens, up  ramp.  New leather shoes. 

03:19:30  Pile of hair.  Car seat & child climbs onto it & sits, bounces.

03;19:54  Farm woman holding cow, bag of bone fertilizer sitting w/ squash in garden. 

03:20:10  Hacking carcass in two vertically.  Insides into metal pan.  Half carcass hanging, cleaned; cut crossways, carried off.

03:21:42  Cows up ramps into slaughter house.  Butchering & gutting hanging carcass.  Cattle herded thru stock pens by men on horseback.

03:22:27  Butcher at table; men carry quarters away from table.  Sheep pen in stockyard.

1920s Meat Packing Industry; Butchers; Butchering; Food; Animals;

 

220715          16:23:53 - 16:27:05            1920s B/W    Sil

Meat Packing

Abbatoir - (slaughterhouse)  Men cutting into carcass and removing intestines & stomach lining. 

16:24:20  Men washing hands.  Processing / canning.  Temperature guage.  Making sausages. 

16:25:07  Machinery & women working yarn. 

16:25:28  Milk processing machines, pour into glass from can & drinking.

16:25:51  Beef bones.  Carcasses hung in freezer & steaming, cold store.  Bones put in oven.  Exterior meat packing factory

 

 

220257          16:21:20 - 16:35:06            1922   B/W    Sil

Meat Packing

Cattle grazing in west; sheep herd; sow & pigs; cattle in feed yard; cattle in Chicago stock yards; buyers along pens; moving cattle from pens.  Cattle after hides, head & hoofs removed on hooks; sawed down middle & with cleaver; inspected & stamped; cleaned & washed; chilling chamber; quartered & carried off & hung.  Meat chart showing cuts. Cutting & scraping.  Cuts shown.  Diagram of beef.  Showing what is done with non-edible parts. Hogs from RR car into pens; hogs scraped and cut into sides.  Fat and lard removed.  Moving platform; sawing with band saw; trimming. Curing ham by covering with salt, etc. then hung in smoke house.  Filling sausage casings & tying into wieners.  Hung on racks.  Cuts of meat shown.

 

 

220459          05:00:04 - 05:12:11            1922   B/W    Sil

Meat Packing

Industrial Geography of the United States

05:00:52  Herd of cattle on flat land near water hole.  Sheep down hill, farmer behind.  Hogs, sow  & young piglets nursing.  Cows fattened, eat at feed trough.

05:01:52  Chicago stockyards w/ cattle & cowboy in pen; buyers stand on fences inspecting cattle as they are led out.  MS Cattle into narrow passage into abattoir or slaughterhouse.

05:03:16  Blacks working on carcasses hanging on conveyor; remove organs & sawed & axed vertically.  Inspection by government inspector, bruise pointedout.  Inedible meat marked.

05:04:33  Cleaning carcass w/ brush; rows of beef carcasses into chilling chambers.

05:05:05  Cut into quarters & carried off; hung. 

05:05:33  Picture of different beef cuts.  Meat on slab.  Cutting hind quarter, flank, loin, plate, shoulder, rib roast, chuck.  Diagram of beef parts.

05:07:08  By-products:  horn, pipe, comb, cutlery, hide, leather, shoes, tallow margarine, blood used for buttons, bone used for fertiliser. hoof for glue.

05:08:25  Pigs out of railroad cattle car w/ buyers watching.  Pork carcasses cleaned, cut in two lengthways, fat removed, hams removed w/ by hand w/ knife by meat cutter; leg sawed off ham & fat trimmed. 

05:10:11  Curing pile of hams in salt & saltpeter, then hung & smoked.  Casings injected w/ sausage meat, women twisting to make sausages & hanging on racks.  Pork chops & other cuts of meat, canned meat.  The End.

 

 

221290          01:01:00 - 01:10:43            193?   B/W    Sd

Do Unto Animals  R1 of 2

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry

01:01:22  Cattle driven w/ farm in background.  Cattle & sheep grazing.  Steam engine freight train runby at station platform w/ cattle cars.  Cattle truck past.  High pan over livestock holding pens at stockyards.

01:02:24  Glass door sign:  The National Live Stock Loss Prevention Bd.  H.R. Smith Gen. Mgr.  Woman taking dictation on recording machine.  MCU of man looking at paperwork.  CU clock  2:50, ticks minute.  Truck pulls away from livestock chute, dead cow or steer on ground.  Dead sheep pulled off by horse.  Hogs dead piled.

01:03:33  Large sides of beef hanging, marked as choice by inspector.  damaged carcasses tagged, bruises pointed out.  Man trimming bruised meat from carcasses.

01:05:11  Hides damaged.  Carcasses w/ whip bruises; pig carcass bruised by cane.  Men trimming pork hams on conveyor line.  MCU trimming leg damaged by kick.  Pig belly trimmed where kicked.  Sheep carcass w/ damage.

01:06:36  Truck w/ rough inside uprights that will injure.  Dropping tail for loading.  Man feeding hay into cattle pen.  Loading cart & adding bedding to truck before loading hogs.  Fixing partitions in place.  Covering truck w/ canvas for protection against heat & cold.

01:08:40  CU Safe Shipping Certificate.  Men in barnyard kicking hogs while loading.  Canvas slapper to be used instead.  Truck out of farmyard.  Truck prepared for shipping w/ sand or water depending on season.  Driving hogs into truck w/ canvas slapper & w/ protective barriers in truck.  Man using electric cattle prod to load.  Unloading at railroad shipping point.

 

 

220792          11:11:06 - 11:20:36            1942?            B/W    SD

Farm Front - Part Two-  WWII

INCLUDING:

11:11:06  Eggs, milk bottles, meat. Dried eggs and dried milk processing.  Cheese.  Pigs in field. Hacking pork carcasses.  Beef stockyards and carcasses in meat plant.  

11:14:40

 

 

X 221144          08:29:31 - 08:45:27            1942   B/W    SD

A Nation’s Meat (1942) Pt. 1 of 2

Industrial Patents Corp.

Meat industry montage: livestock market stockyards, transportation, butchers.  Cattle, herd of sheep, pigs in pens.  Cattle herded across open plain.  Meat carcass carried into grocery store. 

08:30:45  Woman addresses housewives from stage area w/ built-in kitchen set;  points to chart ‘Eat the Right Foods’.  CU butcher showing female customer large cut of meat like t-bone steak, poster in BG ‘Meat - A Natural Source of B Vitamins’; counter at store, butcher passes packaged meat to customer; CU trays of meat put on display.

08:31:40  Beef production & supply diagram.  Cattle graze on hillsides & open plains, rounded up for market & loaded into railroad cattle cars; cowboys on horseback wave to man on train caboose as steam locomotive pulls away.  Cattle sorted at feeder market, some taken on by truck to feed lots.  Lambs & pigs also fattened up. 

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  Pork cutting line, sawing hams, joints.  Smoke house, professional “ham smeller”; girl wraps hams.  Pork loin cut, trimmed & graded.  Spare ribs; bacon sides smoked.  Continued...

 

X 221144          08:45:27 - 08:58:47            1942   B/W    SD

A Nation’s Meat (1942)  Pt. 2 of 2

Industrial Patents Corp.

Continued...  Bacon sides into slicing machine, women on production line wrap bacon.  Sausage production, links made, tied, hung.  Pork minced w/ beef in giant mixing vat, man sprinkles seasoning in.

08:46:41  Home economics instructor demonstrates cooking techniques in demonstration kitchen.  Hot dogs / frankfurters packed by women in white uniforms.  Fat backs & trimmings inspected before production into lard.  Bones inspected for re-use.  Wool puller removes coat from lamb hide.  Cattle hides salted & stacked.  CUs vars livestock by-products - ball of wool being wrapped around hands; bone-handled knives; violin strings; tennis racket; gelatin capsules & drug products.  Diagram of meat distribution.

08:49:56  Secretaries typing orders in large office as received into factory then sent by pneumatic tube to correct department.  Carcasses loaded into semi-truck.  Nationwide distributors around loading table matching supply at various packing plants w/ demand from branch houses assigning refrigerated trucks; teletype messages coming in.  VO re different requirements of various states .  Butcher demonstrates different cuts of beef & pork requested by different markets.  Men getting orders at table.

08:53:22  Secretary at teletype machine; CU machine punching holes in strip of paper.  Carcasses & meat products loaded into refirgerated railroad car.  Packing & inspecting meat for US Armed Forces.  Refrigerated car arriving at branch house, unloaded, sides of meat cut into joints.  Retail dealer examines meat & makes deal.

08:56:21  Travelling salesman at butcher’s shop counter.  Distribution scenes.  Summary montage of all stages of meat supply industry.  CU well-dressed housewife in ‘40s suit at butcher’s counter buying steak; housewife out of Sunrise Food Exchange.  Rolling title ‘Although the war has changed the situation [re plentiful meat] - all of us are glad to deny ourselves anything to help us win’.

 

 

220687          20:09:23 - 20:11:36            1940s B/W    SD

Big Story (YBS) - WWII Rationing - Homefront

INCLUDING:

20:10:38  Abbatoir  (slaughterhouse) - carcasses being moved.  Sign re meatless Tuesdays.  Two women in kitchen - saving fat for war effort.  Straining used fat into container - exchanged for points and money.  Saving for recycling tin cans.  Freight train loaded with scrap metal for war effort. 

20:11:17 End of war - gas rationing off - cars into garage and fill up.  Busy roads. 

 

 

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

 

221109          19:20:20 - 19:29:12            1950   B/W    SD

Frisky The Calf

Coronet Instructional Films  [main title missing]

Farmyard scenes - farmer feeding livestock - little girl Mary comes running to fetch her father - farmer runs over & Mary takes him to cow w/ newborn calf - sit on grass to watch mother cow & calf.  CUs cute calf laying on grass - calf tries to stand up & walks.  Farmer carries calf to barn - feeds older calves milk from bucket - teaches baby calf to drink from teat on bucket.  Calf “Frisky” running in pasture - watches horse in next field - makes friend w/ dog - rests in shade - eats hay.  Frisky has first proper meal at trough w/ older calves.  Vars shots of farm, fields & baby calf.

Beef & Dairy Farming / Agriculture.  Animals.  Rural Americana - 1950s.

 

 

X 221158          20:01:01 - 20:09:49               1950c COL      SD

The Canadian Province Of Manitoba  (1950ca)

Dudley Pictures Corp. ‘This World of Ours’ series

INCLUDING:

Montage:  aerial views of Manitoba in central Canada.  Girl ice skating.  Ice boating race on frozen lake.  Boating in summer.  Tennis match.  Golfers.  Resort hotel.  VO says region perfect for tourism.  Two Mounties in uniform towards camera.  Nuns towards cathedral.  Canadian-Indian children.  High shot busy modern highway w/ slow-moving traffic.  Aerial Hudson’s Bay.  CU plaque ‘Hudson’s Bay Company Incorporated AD 1670’.  Huskies pulling sleds through snow.  Products of local industry - blankets - woman models fur coat.

20:03:52  Hydro-electric plant.  Countryside beef herd.  INT abattoir / meat packing factory - carcasses on hooks being prepared.  Red River.

20:04:47

 

 

220934          02:29:24 - 02:37:43            1950s Col       Sd

4-H Pastures

3 men sitting at table & talk into mic in MCU about pastures.  Interview of farm boy on tractor. Angus & Herefords grazing in pasture.  Working pasture with John Deere; boy explains how he developed the pasture. Fertilising & mowing weeds.  Irrigating from pond with sprinklers.  Melvin Moon interviewed & CUs of grazing beef calves.  Another boy interviewed about pastures and fertilisers. Discusses with extension agents in mountain portion of Georgia as cows graze.

 

 

X 221391          03:40:57 - 03:51:41            1953   COL      SD

The Southwestern States  (Second Edition)

INCLUDING:

03:43:31  Aerial view irrigation project on Rio Grande.  Cotton crop in trucks.  Cattle ranch - beef & dairy herds - sheep grazing.  Angora goat herd in Texas - mohair.  Turkey ranch. 

03:44:52

 

 

X LN 505-079  09:33:26 - 09:43:18            1955   B/W    SD

Meat - From Range To Market: Production, Processing And Distribution

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Grassland w/ bluffs and hllls behind in various locations.  Map of US showing grasslands across the western part.  White face herford cattle grazing w/ cowboy. 

09:35:0?  Cornbelt states shown, those that feed cattle in feedlots for fattening.  Cattle moved and rounding up cattle, leaving calves to grow.  POV past feedlot w/ large steers by large piles of corn. 

09:36:10  Pigs at troughs.  Lambs in pens at feedlots.

09:36:3?  Map showing distribution of cattle versus markets.  Cattle markets shown on map.  Cattle buyer on feedlot.  Stockyards with buyer and lot seller in pen.  Cattle moving towards cattle cars.

09:37:31  Meat processing plant w/ carcasses hanging overhead conveyors and hides removed and cattle gutted.  Plitting into halves w/ large saw.  Sides washed and government inspectors working and stamping approval stamp.  Sides wrapped before moved to cooler.  Marking side as prime by grader.  Pointing out marbling of fat. 

09:39:02  Lambs & sheep on assembly line, into chill rooms.  Chilled hogs into cutting department and hind legs and shoulders cut off.  Hams skinned and to curing cellar.  Butchers on assembly line pulling out pork loin w/ two handled knife.  Spare ribs, bacon made and flattened.  Trimmings separated to lean meat & fat & fat rendered.  Hams wrapped and into smoke house.  Wrapped for shipping after coolign.  Smoked bacon moved, sliced and packages, weighed & wrapped.

09:41:15  Making hotdogs & sausages, smoked, wrapped and packaged.  Meat laboratory.  Developing other products for leather, lambs wool, fats for soap, bones for buttons, glands make insulin & adrenelin.

09:41:5?  Giving shot to girl.  Testing by eating and taking notes.  Meat men moving sides of beef and loaded into iced railroad cars.  Freight train past camera. 

09:42:4?  Butcher buying from local warehouse, men unloading truck. Shopping, cooked meat cut.  Grass of western range.  The End.

 

 

X LN 509-019  00:34:40 - 00:45:04            1956   Col       Sd

Northwestern States (Second Edition)

INCLUDING:

00:38:03  Butte Montana and mines w/ trains.  Oil tanks.  Coal cars in railyard.  Mountain peaks, large sawmill and logging truck dumping into log pond.  White Pine logs into mill.  Lumber drying.  Cattle on range and in feedlots.  Loading onto railroad car and runby of streamliner pulling cattle cards. 

00:39:3?  Interior of beef hanging.  Sheep on range and being sheared.  Lambs loaded into railroad cars.  Wheat combined.  Various harvesting shots.  Truck hauling and dumping grain into elevator and large elevators seen.  Loaves of bread.

00:41:06

 

 

X LN 505-026  07:43:56 - 07:54:55            1956   COL      SD

INCLUDING: 

07:50:12  Industrial scenes - factories - workers - train pulling wagons of coal - iron ore range, Minnesota - ore carried by train, loaded into truck & barges at port of Lake Superior - bound for Great Lakes.  Cargo unloaded at docks.  Goods train.  Trucks.  Cargo plane unloaded.  Beef cattle herded into slaughterhouse / abatoir; INT carcasses hanging.  New farm machinery loaded for export to other states.  Car production line; finished cars driven away from factory on transporter.  Furniture production - man upholstering chair.

07:52:48  Map of US showing imports to Midwest from outside states - CU map of Midwest states summarising exports.  Industrial scene. 

 

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