PRODUCTIVE GROCERY DEPARTMENT - SHIELDHALL FACTORY PRODUCTS
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Title: PRODUCTIVE GROCERY DEPARTMENT - SHIELDHALL FACTORY PRODUCTS
Reference number: 0609
Date: 1959
Sponsor: [ SCWS]
Production company: Gate Film Productions
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 9.00 mins
Description:
How jams, sauces, sweets and coffee are manufactured in the Co-op's Shieldhall factory.
For further information see "The British Co-operative Movement Film Catalogue" compiled and edited by Alan Burton 1997.
Shotlist: No credits. S.C.W.S. Productive Grocery Departments (0.12) Shots of plum trees and fruit pickers (0.21); Shieldhall factory and the making of Co-op jam. Shots of fruit boiling in large pans. Jars filled and jam testing in laboratory, labelling machines and packing line (2.00); Co-op sauce and ketchup. Shots of bottling, labelling and sealing machines. Shot bottles of SP sauce being added to meals (3.05); Sweet making. Boilings wrapped individually and then put into bags. Packing sweets into rolls. Sugar dough for centres of mint imperials. Sweets are stamped out and coated with sugar. Shot of lorry leaving factory (5.14); Shieldhall coffee essence. Coffee beans sucked up and into roaster and then cooled. (6.07) Beans are ground and percolated. Shots of the vacuum pans. (6.34) Bottle washing machine, bottling, capping, labelling and packing machines (8.20); Quick recap of the products seen; S.C.W.S. The Sign of Good Quality at your Co-op (8.53)