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Poultry Marketing R5 of 5

Reel Number: 221204-14

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1931

Country: USA

Location: New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 17:16:02

TC Ends: 17:22:46

Duration: 00:06:44

Poultry Marketing R5 of 5 US Department of Agriculture Inspector filling out form for chickens. Heavy crates weighted & stacked. Men brings chickens out by handsful & puts into crate on railcar. 17:17:39 West Washington Market w/ sidewalk activity under tin awnings. Trucks & vans. Pan onto side street & acivity. Two mounted police. Crates of live chickens moved on railroad dock. 17:18:53 Kosher chickens killed by shocket or rabbi standing in front of barrel w/ knives. 17:19:34 Hebrew intertitle. More killing. 17:19:50 Sign: Morris Bressler & Co. etc. in English & Hebrew. Woman buying chicken on sidewalk as two men watch. Clerk delivered killed & cleaned chicken. 17:20:41 Chart of US Government Standards for dressed chickens. Turning pages of regulations. Inspectors working over pile of dead, cleaned chickens. Stamping grade on back of chicken. Brief shot of 3-stack liner. The End Depression; Shopping; Meat; Government Propaganda; Jewish Religion; Dietary Laws; 1930s;

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