| Visiting the Vienna Beef and Sausage Processing Plant (continued) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 9649 |
| Catalog #: | 486464 | |
| Clip Number: | 486464-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 2A-12 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Vienna Beef and Sausage Co., Chicago IL | |
| Year Shot: | 1996 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INDUSTRY: Food, Meat | |
| Description: | 12:00:32:- CU of Mike Lukas (TV host/comedian) wearing a white frock coat and hairnet while standing behind a rack of hanging hot dogs waiting to be cooked in the production area of the Vienna Beef and Sausage Company in Chicago, IL. CU's of a long strand of slimy raw hot dogs (in natural casing) being fed into an industrial casing machine by two employees; CU's of the machine's visible gears; CU's of the hot dogs coming out the other end of the casing machine, all molded, cased and cut (very hypnotic material here, the gears and meat acting rhymically, mechanically). 12:03:32:- CU of a tray stacked with cuts of meat. Travelling MS of two large vats of cut and cleaned beef cuts. Travelling tight LS's through the packaging area/ assembly line in the production area. 12:04:17:- MS interview with Hal Sloan, PR representative with the Vienna Beef and Sausage Company, inside a quiet office. Interview is mediated by Mike. Both are still wearing the white frock coats but only Mike wears the hairnet (like he needs it... he's bald). Hal runs through the entire operating procedure, from obtaining the meat to cutting, cleaning and mixing it, from the several types of casing to racking and smokehouse cooking, from packaging to distribution. They also talk about the difference between pure- beef and all-beef, why hot dogs come eight to a pack and buns come in twelve, "where corndogs come from", and what is in Queen Elizabeth's purse. | |
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