SOAP MAKING
General views inside the soap works - Adding perfume, filling the mould, opening mould to reveal large slab and cutting the slab of soap. (clip - full length available onsite)
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Title: SOAP MAKING
Reference number: 2169
Date: 1936c
Sponsor: Glasgow Education Committee
Production company: [ Elder-Dalrymple Productions]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.47 mins
Description:
Inside a soap works where the different manufacturing processes are explained.
One of the Carrick Series, made for and approved by Glasgow Education Committee. See teaching notes and Scottish Educational Film Review No 27
Shotlist: Credits (.09) inside a soap works. Melting the fats (.50) The fats entering the vat (1.16) Preparation of brine mixture. Mixing same in tub (3.13) Adding perfume (3.31) Filling the mould gvs, opening mould to reveal large slab (3.52) Cutting (4.37) Stamping and packing (4.45) ecs (4.47)