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WWII - Homefront, USA - Industrial Kitchen; Rationing Points & Stamps & Shopping at King Kullen, 1943

Reel Number: 221662-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1943

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 08:05:37

TC Ends: 08:15:55

Duration: 00:10:18

WWII - Homefront, USA - Industrial Kitchen; Rationing Points & Stamps & Shopping at King Kullen, 1943 Men working in industrial kitchen w/ large machines, pouring ingredient into stainless steel tanks. Women breaking eggs into metal cups, sniffing & dumping into large cans as supervisors walk past. Good shot down line. 08:06:22 Pouring eggs into container & separating yolks from whites, MCU. LS large machines & men filling barrels labeled “spray dried whole eggs”, man taking sample. CU turning contents w/ scoop. 08:08:06 Inking Kress Products Corp. & insignia. 08:08:20 Women filling bags of dried (?) eggs from large container on assembly line. Machine inking small sealed boxes on line. Filling large carton w/ small boxes. 08:09:18 Men emptying butter from large tanks / churns; cutting, covering (?) & pulling off on carts. 08:10:24 Man feeding strips of butter into machine; woman cutting into pound blocks. Other women wrapping & putting on conveyor. 08:11:15 CU wrapping paper, butter added & butter to conveyor. Stacks of Swift’s Brookfield Butter. 08:11:50 Pallets of wrapped butter in cooling room. 08:12:27 Woman shopping in King Kullen Grocery. Prices & ration points posted on stacks of cans, putting cans into shopping cart. 08:13:23 CU chart: Official Table of Point Values For Processed Food. No. 1 - Effective March 1, 1943. 08:13:27 Women at check out counter, tearing out ration coupons. CU ration stamps in booklet. 08:13:55 Woman talking w/ grocer at fruit counter. CU vegetables in cart. MCU woman talking to grocer. Sign: Please Do Not Ask For Butter Today. Sign: Sorry No More Pineapple, in front of cans; on empty shelf. 08:15:13 CU sign: Let’s Share The Food & Help Win The War. It is a Federal Offense To Violate... Sign: Notice - The Points Are Marked On The Article & Shelf of all Rationed Food... CU sign: We Are Temporarily Out of Beef. 08:15:45 Ext. shot of grocery store front door entrance, women out, pedestrians on sidewalk. WW2; 1942; 1940s; Food;

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