The Inside Story: Fish Canning (1938)

Travel back in time to 1938, when canneries lined Canada’s west coast, salmon filled the bottom of boats, and housewives served canned salmon on their best china.
This nine-minute government-sponsored industrial film-The Inside Story-shows what was going on inside those massive canneries that once lined the riverbank in Steveston, British Columbia. The story begins with scenes of fishermen dumping salmon into a boat hold and ends with a housewife in a modern kitchen, the consumer of a thoroughly modern industry. (Watch to the end, cooking has definitely improved since 1938.)
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[@bbyberni]

just when i thought there couldn't possibly be a video for this rabbit hole i've found myself in....... thank you!

[@oktheneggscape5759]

that heading machine looks fucking brutal.

[@pjosifovic]

and still in use. Iron Butchers are one of mostly used deheading machines in Alaska salmon processing.

[@oktheneggscape5759]

@@pjosifovic the ones I've dealt with have a few more guards now haha

[@markpimlott2879]

Because Chinese workers were used in earlier days to behead, eviserate and remove the fins, the machines that replaced these workers and these messiest steps were almost universally referred to, not as the ''Iron Butcher'' (as above), but as the 'Iron Chink''.
Unfortunately, I even heard that term used for this equipment on the BC coast during the 1970s!
Hopefully, now it's a racist epithet no longer spoken!
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