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WWII - 1942, USA Homefront: Industrial Film: Nation’s Meat, A Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221144-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1942,1940s

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 08:45:27

TC Ends: 08:58:47

Duration: 00:13:20

WWII - 1942, USA Homefront: Industrial Film: Meatpacking Pt. 2 of 2 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. Hotdogs / 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 various livestock by-products uses - ball of wool yarn 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 refrigerated 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 Traveling 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’. Food Processing Industry; Consumer Goods; Hygiene; Slaughterhouses; Farming; Industrial Film; Promotional; 1940s; WW2; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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