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Title: BULK HANDLING

Reference number: 5842

Date: 1961 - 1962

Sponsor: William Crawford and Sons Limited, Leith

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 48.09 mins

Description: Film depicts the move to automation in the Crawford's biscuit factory during the early 1960s.

Crawford's Biscuit Factory Collection features Crawford biscuit factory in Edinburgh (closed 1950s / 1960s). As well as factory instructional films, the films feature the social activities of the staff.

Credits: [filmed by members of the Edinburgh Cine & Video Society (?)]

Shotlist: William Crawford and Sons Limited, Leith; Stores Department and Ingredients Room, Methods Before the Introduction of Bulk Handling, Sugar, shot of flour sack Receiving and Storing, exits of lorries loaded with sacks of flour,being unloaded by fork-lift trucks (1.55) ints of sacks of flour stacked high by fork-lifts (3.05) Blending, Spring Flour, Biscuit Flour, Low Protein Flour, Rank Hutchison, Snodgrass, male factory workers empty flour sacks into container built into the floor (6.01) shot moves from ceiling to floor, following movement of flour down a machine called The Locker-Rotex Sifting Machine (6.15) where it is sifted (6.33) The Libra Packing and Weighing Machine large machine with flour sack attached to the end fills with flour, a man removes the full sack and replaces it with an empty one (7.43) man wheels sack of flour on up-right wheelbarrow to a room filled with sacks of flour (8.19) Sugar, shot of a large sack of sugar Receiving and Storing exits of sacks of sugar are stacked on palettes, lifted by forklifts and moved inside to another building (9.15) The Crompton Parkinson Kek Mill, Sugar Pulverisation shot of sugar sacks being opened an sugar being dumped into machine, camera follows the path of the sugar as it moves through the machine, sugar falls into large white sacks at the end of the process, which are removed and replaced when full by a factory worker(11.09) man sweeps the floor (11.18) gvs of lots of large sacks of sugar (11.36) shot of tray of fat C. B. Fat, Creamery Butter Fat, Supplied in Tanks, From Liverpool, exits of large metal boxes of fat being moved by fork-lifts into lifts, then moved inside (12.48) The Conditioning Room ints of stacked up large metal boxes (13.18) Dig-Out and Weigh metal boxes are opened by male factory worker who then, using a spade digs out some butter and places it in a smaller metal trolley which he then pushes on to a weighing machine and writes the weight on it (15.16) Syrup a large metal keg pours syrup into small basins (16.01) Setting Up a sack of flour and trolley of fat are moved (16.52) Topping up weight of a sack of flour is adjusted (17.25) exits of rain falling in a reservoir, with a sign implanted: Water, From Conventional Sources!, Volume & Temperature Control, shot of pipes and a tap pouring water into a large basin (18.14) men tip sacks of flour into large containers (19.39) Ancillary Work, Cleaning Flour Bags, A man holds empty sacks up to a large vacuum machine (20.25) Washing Fat Tanks exits of man washing out fats tanks (21.36) The Changeover, cartoon of figure stepping from 1961 to 1962 carrying the word "production" (22.14) exits of factory, ints of workmen demolishing old equipment, exits of factory building covered in scaffolding, gvs of construction 20 ton silo (23.50)exits of very large pieces of machinery being unloaded from lorries and driven down the road held in place by a crane (25.53) Within factory grounds, gvs of silo being winched into place by crane, some use of speeded up filming (31.13) shot of finished silo, gvs of construction including welding (32.16) gvs of construction (35.55) shot of paperwork on table, shots of new computerised control panel, extending the length of the room (36.30) gvs of factory as work is completed (38.27) 1962 Bulk Handling, A tanker is unloaded by one man using the control panel (39.20) Receiving Fat or Syrup shot of tanker being unloaded using tubes and pipe system (40.44) Fat Storage shot of man standing on huge white vat (41.00) Syrup storage ints of huge tankers (41.09) Fat Blending camera follows progress of fat as it is emulsified and moves to huge storage tanks (43.16) Setting-Up for the day shot of man in control room (43.49) underexposed = v. dark control room (44.07) Service Bins, Weighing Units & The Sundries Room, shot of room filled with new machinery (44.29) Calling for a Mixing shot of control panel Calling for a Mixing- sugar, shot of machinery Sugar Weighed form Kek Mill shot of control panel, Calling for a Mixing - fat shot of tanks of fat Shot of control panel, Calling For a Mixing - flour, shot of flour containers, shot of control panel, Calling for a Mixing - Syrup shot of syrup tankers , shot of control panel, Calling for a Mixing - Sundries shot of man emptying a sack into machine, shot of control panel (46.10) shot of ingredients being mechanically mixed in huge vat (47.48) vat of mixture is moved by fork-lift and tipped into container (48.09) The End