Learning on ScreenVisit to Peek Frean and Company’s Biscuit Works, A
- Synopsis
- An early ‘commercial’ made for the company. Shows workers getting up steam for the ovens, rolling dough and cutting shapes, a false fire alarm, workers leaving for lunch, workers packing biscuits, delivery by horse-drawn vans and a few early motor lorries.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of production
- 1906
- Notes
- NB DVD version is entitled OLD WAYS, NEW WAYS and includes a film on the closing of the factory in the late 1980’s.
- Uses
- Industrial archaeology, particularly horse transport. Background material for social history courses - labour in 1906.*
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Keywords
- factories; food production and distribution
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Price
- £7.00 (Sands)
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 24 minutes
- Year
- 2009
- Type
- Film
- Format
- 16mm
- Availability
- Hire
Production Company
- Name
Cricks & Sharp
Sponsor
Distributor (Hire)
- Name
BFI Film Bookings Unit
- bookings.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/help-faq/film-bookings External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8938 / 8935
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
Distributor (Sale)
- Name
Sands Films
- info@sandsfilms.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.sandsfilms.co.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7231 2209
- Fax
- 020 7231 2119
- Address
- Squirrel Films Distribution
119 Rotherhithe Street
London
SE16 4NF
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