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Title: HOW BLUEBELL MARGARINE IS MADE

Reference number: 0876

Date: 1927c

Sponsor: [ SCWS]

Sound: silent

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.40 mins

Description: The manufacturing processes involved in the production of 'Bluebell' margarine at the Co-operative creamery in Wigtownshire. [Incomplete, Part I only]

For further information see "The British Co-operative Movement Film Catalogue" compiled and edited by Alan Burton 1997.

Credits: How the famous Blueball margarine is manufactured in a most up-to-date creamery, hygienically perfect, situated on the banks of the Bladnoch River (?) Wigtownshire, controlled by the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited."

Shotlist: [Part One]

Credits (.20); Over 100 tons of this delightful margarine are sent out every week to the homes of the co-operators of Scotland. (.31); Picturesque shot of Bladnoch River (.35); A general view of factory and surroundings. Pan from front of creamery across to houses on opposite bank (.57); High shot looking down onto creamery and into yard (1.19); The power behind the product. Shots of smoking chimneys (1.39); Shots of a man in the boiler room stoking the boilers (1.38); Smoking chimneys (1.39); Man in boiler room. General shots of generating machinery and men at work (2.16); Wigtownshire is the chief dairying county in Scotland. We draw out milk supply from the finest herds. Dairy cattle in field (2.29); Cows coming in to be milked. Dairy cattle leave field and enter milking shed (2.55); Inside men on stools milk cows by hand (3.27); Milk on its way to creamery (3.30); Shots of single truck travelling on rural road loaded with milk churns (4.11); Convoy of trucks arrive at the creamery (4.26); On arrival, the milk is weighed and samples taken for examination in the laboratory. Churns are unloaded and emptied into large tank from which a sample is taken (5.12); The milk is now pasturised, cleaned and cooled. Milk passes through a series of filters (5.49); The cleaner. Cleaning equipment in operation (6.23); Cooling the milk. Milk is cooled (6.45); The milk ripening room. Milk is ripened in a series of baths (7.23); The milk is now ready to be mixed with the fats which come from all quarters of the world - America, India, Africa and Australia - each supplies its quota. A train load of fat approaching our siding. A steam train approaches siding (7.49); Barrels of fat being received and conveyed to warehouse. Barrels are rolled off the railway wagon (7.59); Shot of unloaded barrels (8.15); The barrels are individually loaded into a lift mechanism which delivers them to a higher level (8.37); High shot of factory store building with hundreds of barrels stacked outside and shots of men rolling barrels into the building (9.02); Barrels are brought from the store and emptied into melting tanks. Barrels are rolled along walkway and slid down ramps to tanks, where they are emptied, the fat broken up and fed into tanks (9.54); Empty barrels returning to siding. Shots as empty barrels roll down rails inside the building (10.11)