Tomorrow’s Brew

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2085

Date Released

19 May 1969

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Cycle Centenary
2. 2New to You
3. 3Designed for Ravers
4. 4Tomorrow’s Brew
5. 5Walk on Water

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Tomorrow’s Brew. DESCRIPTION: About three quarters of the money we spend to quench our thirsts - sixteen hundred million pounds a year - goes on beer. One of our major brewers, who started in 1750 in a London brewery that’s still in production, has built the most modern in Europe. Completely automated, it only takes a staff of seventy to produce 280,000,000 Pints! SHOTLIST: MS Dray horses pulling beer cart. LAS pipes in brewery (Whitbreads - East London). MLS machinery. MCU master millers, (2) sign. Peters side and Joes side. CU zoom out - door of vat. CU gauges. TS man walks down ladder beside gauges. MCU man indicating level on gauge. CU gauge. MS water flowing into tank. GV pan water flowing into tank. GV tanks of fermenting beer in old brewery. GV exterior Whitbreads new brewery in Luton. MS pan down, zoom out - from brewery exterior into lorry backing load into bay. CU man pulls lever. (2) Barley into machine. MCU pan man at controls. CU barley pours down chute. MCU pan down chute. CU Barley out of chute. MS pan down barley storage containers. Trucking shot from escalator to control room. MS pan control room. MCU pan up from controls to illuminated circuit diagram. CU zoom in beer poured into vats. GV pan new vats. MS pan man walking along corridor. MS sign - liquor vats - pan down to vats. TS pan up from control room to storage tanks. MS pan down row of modern vats. MCU bottles along conveyor belt. MS bottles on conveyor belt. GV TS brewery interior. (2) bottling machine. (2) bottles into crates and along conveyor belt. MCU machinery. MS pan man puts beer into kegs. MS man rolls barrel away from camera. TS brewery lorry driver from entrance. Cart and horse pulls out of old brewery entrance.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Food and cooking; Business and commerce; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Animals

Locations

United Kingdom

Footage sources

Great Britain

Card file number

94728

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

243

Story extras:

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