| ICE CREAM FACTORY Ice Cream Racket. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7860 |
| Catalog #: | 104143 | |
| Clip Number: | 104143-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1523 C | |
| Timecode: | 01:54:31 - 01:58:23 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1946 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FOOD: Dairy, Ice Cream INDUSTRY: Factories, Assembly Line INDUSTRY: Machinery LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Misc OCCUPATIONS: Factory Workers | |
| Description: | ICE CREAM FACTORY Various shots of the El Dorado Ice Cream Factory showing the correct way and the racketeers' way of making ice cream. CU female chemist/employee taking liquid sample from tank to be analyzed, the liquid is spooned into a cup. CU female employee taking a sample from thick/sticky liquid that pours down upright wall of rollers. GV rollers moving the thick liquid. MS/CU vat of creamy liquid being gently agitated for mixing purposes. MSs women at conveyor where thin sheets of unknown substance are rolled out. High angle MS as three lines of thick material (ice cream) slowly pushes through rolling/cutting machine, looks like these will be made into ice cream bars or sandwiches. MS woman putting lids on ice cream tins/tubs. MSs women feeding paper cups into automated machine. Great MSs of conveyor lined with ice cream cups, the cups pass under an automated press and are sealed with a lid. MS women at end of conveyor placing ice cream cups into paper bag. Cool MS of ice cream cups moving along conveyor straight toward camera. GV women standing along side of conveyor as ice cream cups move by. MS women feeding machine paper cups. Nice MSs of automated machine filling cups on conveyor with ice cream. MS woman in laboratory seated at desk, on the desk there are ice cream culture sample in Petri dishes, the woman records lab results in log. MS man in lab coat writing in log. CU as the scientist uses a long glass straw to siphon liquid from sample bottle, small amounts of the siphoned culture is then placed in test tubes. CU profile of male lab technician. View through a door of a barn or shed, showing the old school way of making ice cream in barrels, this method is unhygienic compared to the sterile environment of the factory. MS churn, bowl and pot in dank corner of room. MS wooden spoon. MS bowl in dank corner next to exposed water pipes. MS man lifting churn. MS rusty water faucet open and filling galvanized bucket. MS as man removes wooden spoon from churn and throws it on the ground, he then lifts the churn and pours the creamy liquid into a bowl. MS men removing tins from dank corner of shed. MSs as men take small blocks of ice from bucket and pack them around ice cream tin in second bucket. MS man unscrewing lid of ice cream tin and stirring the contents inside, the lid is screwed back on. MS men carrying tins out of dank corner. | |
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