Scottish Screen Archive

Title: MODERN DAIRY

Reference number: 4067

Director: filmed by John Baird, Charles J. Kerr, Colin Lees, William Shaw

Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland

Production company: SEFA (Lanarkshire Group)

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 13.08 mins

Description: This educational film looks at the ways in which the milk industry has been revolutionised by modern engineering and scientific invention.

Credits: nar. Tom Smith
produced with the assistance of James A Brown, Gaindykehead, Airdrie; Hugh Robertson, S.C.W.S. Creamery, Wishaw; East Kilbride Dairy Farmers Ltd; Gibbs Dairy Ltd; Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society ltd; Scottish Milk Marketing Board
sd. Park Film Studios Ltd. Glasgow
[SEFA Lanarkshire Group being John Baird, Charles J. Kerr, Colin Lees, William Shaw]

Shotlist: Opening credits and title (0.22) Friesians and Ayrshire cows grazing in field (0.35) brief shot milking parlour then creamery factory, cutting to children drinking milk in school classroom (0.58) tractor and device cutting grass in field (1.39) cows in barn, feeding on silage, cuts to model illustrating how an electric fence prevents cattle from eating too much (3.03) gvs in milking parlour, showing how milk is collected (6.01) milk tanker arrives at parlour (6.33) gvs at creamery ("Co-op SCWS milk"), showing laboratory testing of milk and bottling (9.54) children in classroom drinking cartons of milk (10.03) c/u machinery showing how cartons are made (10.38) shot of milk vending machines, shot of milk being delivered to doorstep (11.25) resume of clips of various previously seen footage (12.24) The End, ecs (13.08)

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