FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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Food Preservation is Colourful Process

Shows the processing of orange juice, marmalade and peanut butter.
Series : Australian Colour Diary | Episode : 1 | Year : 1957 | Total Duration : 3 Minutes |
Director : Jack S Allan |
Orange orchard. Men picking oranges into bags around chest, then tipping bags into wooden crates. Oranges on conveyor belt, woman sorting and grading. Man standing next to machinery with juice. Bottles being sterilised and examined through screen. Machinery filling bottles with juice, men packing bottles in crate. Men pouring buckets of orange pulp and sack of sugar into vat for marmalade and stirring. Machinery filling jars, women by machines. Sacks of peanuts poured onto machinery, man raking shell and husk, conveyor belts. Production line with women in uniform sorting by hand. Roasting, basket tipped, machinery, woman filling jars with peanut butter.
Access No. 43962 | 3 mins 13 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |