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Title: CRAWFORDS TRAINING FILM: Nile Wafer

Reference number: 10996

Date: 1953*

Sound: silent

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.11 mins

Description: The various processed involved in making, packing, and labelling Crawfords Nile Wafer Biscuits.

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.

Shotlist: Nile Wafer Production. WC and S. (.03) Wafer Room Machines superimposed over a hot of a young woman operating a large machine. Pan over to other women operating various equipment. Some of the women smile and laugh at the camera. (.09) Icing Machines. Five women at a conveyor belt. (.16) Saw and Conveyor. Women feeding through a machine long sections of wafer biscuit. Women gathering the small rectangles of newly cut wafer biscuit. (.25) Twist Wrapping Machine. Nile Wafer. Feed Machine. Women taking chocolate covered wafer biscuits out of a box and plaing them on a conveyor belt. (1.10) Machine. C/u of the wrapping machine as the biscuits pass through. (1.28) Line and Supply tins. Packing. Woman sticking little labels on metal boxes, then placing a sheet of grease proof paper inside. (2.03) C/u of a woman hand packing the newly wrapped wafer biscuits into the metal boxes. (2.31) Lid Up and Label. C/u of a woman putting lids on the metal boxes. (2.40) Woman sticking Crawfords label onto the metal tins. (3.07) The End. (3.11)