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Title: CLEAN FOOD

Reference number: 1102

Date: 1957

Director: d. Stanley L. Russell

Sponsor: COI/Dept. of Health for Scotland

Production company: Thames and Clyde

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.04 mins

Description: A demonstration of cleanliness when dealing with and eating food.

Credits: ph. Stanley L. Russell
comm. s. James McKechnie
tech. adv. Allan W. Ritchie

Shotlist: REEL I

Credits (0.22); Lollipop man guides children across road (0.34); Close-up of various road signs, including Glasgow Corporation "Take Care Accident Area" sign (0.52); Close-up of plate of food (0.56); Shots of family eating their meal (1.07); A doctor examines a young boy (1.34); Close-up of plate of food (1.42); Magnified shot of bacteria multiplying (2.09); c/u Highway code; c/u similar booklet "The Food Code". (2.21) Clean hands are essential (2.24); Various people washing their hands (2.56); Shot of woman cutting white bread (3.18); Shots of workers being served from a hot plate and from hatches marked Dinner and Soup/Sweet; gvs workers eating their meals at canteen tables (3.55); c/u People washing their hands (4.00); Close-up of women's nails, clean and dirty (4.20); c/u sign: "Women's Cloakroom"; c/u hand flushing toilet; c/u sign "Towel & Soap have been provided for your use. Please wash Your hands before leaving"; woman washing her hands (4.43); Shots of women pre-packing meat [all wearing covered hair, but no gloves] (4.58); c/u Hands with clean dressings (5.08); Clean habits make clean food (5.13); ints. woman selects fish from an open display in fish monger's, sneezing without covering her mouth; she sneezes again, this time using a handkerchief (5.29); ms woman laying cakes on a plate, licking her fingers halfway through; shots of woman serving in a bakers, using her breath to blow open paper bags, which she packs with food (6.26) ints restaurant kitchen; c/u fingers rearranging food; waitress picks up plates using a napkin; c/u waitress scratching her head, before serving a plate to a table of older women (6.41); Close-up of flies crawling over a tray of pies; rat climbing over open refuse bins; rat running through a work-top full of uncovered food; c/u rat sitting in the sugar bowl; c/u dead rat in a trap (7.10); Clean clothing is attractive and hygienic (7.17); Brief shots in a butcher's baker's and in a kitchen (8.02); Reheat cooked food thoroughly. Women shopping for frozen cooked foods in a supermarket; woman paying at tills (8.35)

REEL II

No credits. A young boy returns home and tries to cook a meal by reheating stew (1.27); Animated sequence showing "germs" dancing in the pot of stew [to hot jazz music], intercut with thermometer showing 100 degrees Celsius; animated bacteria evaporate; c/u hot plate of stew (2.49); Avoid touching by hand, cover wherever possible. (2.57) ints. staff serving from a glass case in butcher's shop; close shots man using a bacon slicer (3.30) ints. woman packing box with cakes, using tongs (3.44) c/u cold meat being covered and stored in pantry; shop workers storing food in a refrigerator (4.09); Utensils must be clean. (4.12) Shot of a woman washing dishes; pan over kitchen, c/u kettle (4.46); Shots of black terrier eating from a dedicated bowl (5.04); Woman washing dishes and pots in a canteen kitchen, brief intercuts with jars of detergent and steriliser (5.55); Young boy at work scrubbing a table with sterilising solution (6.14); Clean food rules are revised. The End (7.15)