Keeping the "Buts" out of Butter. A story for Housewives.

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

482

Date Released

28 Aug 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

919

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

NoS Summary - Processes involved in making butter.
NoS synopsis: "Do you know what has to go into one pound of butter? Well it takes all the cream in 10 1/2 quarts of whole milk!" C/U of 11 bottles of milk. Dissolve into C/U of a pat of butter. "A modern creamery is something between a laboratory and a factory. A sample is taken from each can of cream - " L/S of place where lots of milk churns stand on the ground. Interior of the dairy - samples are taken. "... and in the laboratory exacting tests are made." M/S of woman laboratory technician testing the milk. C/U of the testing device. "Chemical processes make the butter-fat in each sample visible." C/U of another woman testing the milk. C/U of measuring process. "Cream is pasteurized twice before churning. Steam coils heat the cream to 180 degrees ..." C/U of the coils moving through the cream. "The cream is cooled by running it over ice-cold coils." M/S of the cream running down what looks like venetian blinds. C/U of cream running down the coils. C/U of the cream running off the bottom. "The churn room is spick and span - even the air is cleaned before it enters. The churns are filled through pipes ..." Man screws a pipe onto a machine. Shot of the churns rotating. "Each churn produces 1,000 pounds every hour." The churn is opened. C/U of the curds inside. "A little different from the farm churn!" A trolley full of bags of curds is pushed out of the churn room. "In the packing room machines mould and cut 4,000 pounds an hour!" The moulding and cutting machines are shown. "Grease-proof paper, thouroughly sterilized, is used in the last process - wrapping." C/U of women working in the wrapping section of the dairy. Butter pats pass them on a conveyor belt. High angle shot of butter moving along the belt.

Keywords

Food and cooking

Footage sources

Pathe Review Issue No.4/1924
Pathe Exchange

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.195
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP195
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

275

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