Plastic Milk Bottles

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2180

Date Released

15 Mar 1971

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Channel Wrecks
2. 2Plastic Milk Bottles
3. 3New Rolls Royce Car
4. 4Car Crushing
5. 5Australian Old Trams
6. 6Italian Gestures
7. 7'Forties’ Fashion

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Plastic Milk Bottles. DESCRIPTION: A dairy plant in Essex is the first commercially viable plastic milk bottle producer in Britain. SHOTLIST: GV workers on assembly line in factory. SV women puts plastic bottles onto moving conveyor belt. SV bottles on belt. SV bottles being trimmed at the top (angle shot). SV bottles on way to be filled with milk. SV man tipping plastic granules into machine. CU 3 shots bottles being shaped by machine. CU 3 shots bottles being filled with milk. SV women packing bottles of milk into crates. CU bottles taken from conveyor belt. CU bottles put into crate. SV pan milk float put into crate. SV pan milk float along road. SV cat. SV milkman takes bottles from crate pan down as he drops one but it doesn’t break. CU milkman hands milk to housewife. CU cat. CU bottles of milk are put into fridge alongside old glass bottle of milk, the door is closed.

Keywords

Vehicles; Domestic life; Business and commerce; Industry and manufacture; Animals

Locations

Essex; United Kingdom

Card file number

96855

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

95

Story extras:

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