Packa Plastic Pinta

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1857

Date Released

4 Jan 1965

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1New Year - With Honours
2. 2Packa Plastic Pinta
3. 3What a Relief
4. 4The Queens of Clydebank

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Plastic Milk Bottles. DESCRIPTION: Britain is drinking around four million gallons of milk a day. A factory in Mildenhall, Suffolk has found an alternative to the familiar milk bottle. A machine uses a tube of polythene sheet. It fills it with milk and seals off the tubes into pint sized sachets. They are lighter to carry, less cumbersome and they don’t break. SHOTLIST: pan shot of milkman delivering milk, to medium shot putting milk bottles on doorstep. Medium shot of milk bottle filling machine. Milk bottles being washed in machine. Drying machine. Full milk bottles being put into crates. Plastic containers being packed. Plastic containers being filled by machine. Bags being filled. Crates of plastic milk containers. Containers being delivered to house. Container put on step, empty bottle taken away. Milk bottle picked up then dropped and broken.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Industry and manufacture

Locations

Suffolk; Mildenhall

Card file number

89214

Credits:

Camera

John Mould

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

111

Story extras:

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