1950s MILK DOCUMENTARY "MILK FOR THE CITY" DAIRY INDUSTRY / MILK MEN 65284
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- This 1950s black and white educational film is about milk production. It was produced by Victor Solow as an MPO Productions. A baby in a bassinet cries as its parents sleep. The husband gets the infant, removes a glass bottle from the refrigerator, and feeds it (:24-1:33). A farmer walks in a field, seen through barbed wire. Inside a barn, cows wait to be milked by a portable milking machine. A cow is hand-milked. A calf drinks from a bucket of milk with a rubber nipple attached. Milk is poured into buckets. The containers of milk are loaded into coolers or poured into a refrigerated tank. The barn is sprayed to control flies (1:35-3:24). Dairy cows lounge in a field. Milk is transported in the back of a 1940s Chevy truck. The containers of milk are unloaded at a receiving station. The worker smells the inside of the lid before dumping the milk in to be weighed on a Toledo scale. The metal jugs are washed and sterilized before being returned to the farmer. The milk will be loaded in an H.P. Hood & Sons train car (3:25-6:10). The manager cranks a telephone to call in his report. The Hood Supertest Grade A Milk sign on the building is shown. The man receiving the report dictates to a secretary (6:12-7:42). Tank milk trucks head for the city plant. A valve is opened and milk surges through pipes at the plant and is deposited in larger vats, where it bubbles. It passes through pasteurizing coils. The results are tested in a laboratory using various equipment, including microscopes (7:43-9:54). Employees must pass a weekly health exam at the Medical Department (9:55-10:06). Glass bottles pass by a magnifying glass to spot flaws. The machine lifts them up and fills them with milk. A worker opens and closes three-way valves on a grid of pipes to switch to buttermilk. The filled bottles pass by on the conveyer and are capped. A female worker inspects smaller bottles as they pass by. The finished bottles are packed into large crates (10:08-12:13). A Boston and Maine train arrives at the plant to pick up the final product (12:15-13:11). The large empty vats and dismantled pipes are cleaned and sterilized every day (13:13-15:09). The train transports the milk. Scenes from the caboose are shown. A fire occurs on the wheels. He sprays it out and emergency crews are called to fix it (15:11-19:35). A man sits on a bench at the Concord train station. Above him is a large poster of Suffolk Downs. A train arrives to which the milk tank car is attached. The conductor looks at his watch and signals the engineer to leave. The train tracks and passing landscape are shown. It arrives at a large train station with many tracks. The Hoods large smoke stack is seen (19:37-21:50). Glass jugs of milk are loaded into Hood’s milk delivery trucks, which is delivered to homes, businesses, boats, and schools (21:52-23:00).
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Very nice documentary I'm a milk man to stores have been one for 20 years and my father delivered milk in bottles to house for 30 years in the 50s and 60s God bless you for this film thank you
I like the old films
This was a very interesting film in several respects. My great-great, great, and grandfathers had a dairy farm. They also had a dairy business which served our area. I believe that excess milk went to city dairies in the Hartford, Conn. area. A few years ago a friend found one of our old bottles on Ebay for me.
I love these old documentaries but I was out of milk and started craving it so bad I ran to the gas station at 3:00 a.m. to get a gallon LOL now drinking a big ice cold glass of milk watching it is even better
Living In Hyannisport, Cap Cod Mass. Had The Cap Cod Dairy Milk Delivered To My Door In The Morning. Fresh & Ice Cold Bottles. Was Great.
Our family sold milk to H.P.Hood for years From Somerset Ma. There isn't even a cow in that town now.
Milk tasted better out of glass bottles.
Sam Iam 🤤
@@blankblank5409 it was more natural as well
What did it taste like? It surely looks creamier than today’s milk
@@manila1909 I get mine in glass bottles. It tastes creamier and richer. It's SO good.
I live in New York State where a local farm has integrated the whole process. Their milk is sold in supermarkets, as well as their own store at the farm. They even have home delivery. The best part is that they sell milk in glass bottles. I agree that it seems fresher than plastic or cardboard containers.
God, that was weird. I love it.
my aunt and uncle lived and worked on a Dairy farm in Lodi ca and once a month we would go there and have dinner then walk off the dinner by walking around the dairy and talk to cows and ride the calf feeding machine which was on rails and the big tank was in the milking area and could hold several thousand gallons of FRESH MILK and yes the tank was at a temperature of 40 degrees some times lower and there was a tap at the bottom of the tank where you could put a gallon jug under and get cold milk
So amazing! One of my favorite memories was the sound of the milk man coming by very early and the bottle gently clinking as he exchanged them...every day all year. Thank you to all the people involved in providing the milk😊
We had different diary companies in my area.1950S, SEALTEST, HARIBSON, FOREMOST, MARTIN CENTURY FARMS, BORDEN , BRENRINGERS, AND ABBOTTS. Now there are few companies. LEHIGH VALLEY, AND WAWA
Wow! You have a great memory!!
Foremost milk exists in Thailand 🇹🇭 but I don't know if it has ancient connections to the company in your area.
Supplee also
You have just crossed over...into The Dairy Farm
I'll be "milking " this film for all it's worth.
6:29
Guy at the Charleston plant: "High water? Is it receding?"
Maynard: "Yeah, just like your hairline."
Guy at the Charleston plant: "Concentrate on the Grade A toupees, will ya?"
At 6:55 that manager uses his chair wheels like a boss!
18:28 He is still giving it to poor Jack. You don't mess with Grade A milk!
4:27
Narrator: "Trained workers, with years of experience, check the quality and flavor of every can."
Worker: Sniffs Lid
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Great film, but this made me laugh
If we drank milk now like we did in 1957 we all would be thinner
Gouz for cows (circa 1940 ‘s&50’s) Elmont,Long Island,New York That was it’s slogan 25 cents a quart.
In 1950 they were so advance to preserve and distribute the milk.
Sounds like Rod Serling narrating about milk from The Twilight Zone
So many NE dairy farms are gone now.
And then they invented UHT Long Life Milk 🥛 and the train drivers were able to enjoy their showers after dinner.
Nice
Beautiful channel 🥀
Submitted for your approval. The Milk Zone.
17:38 How dare you interrupt my shower, Jack!
5:40 Gomer Pyle working for Hood's Supertest Milk!
Nah, I think it was actually Maynard
@@taco2k3 Maynard is the man. As Station Manager, he keeps the milk moving. He keeps his eye for those high water situations at Hood's Supertest Milk. That's why Hood can say that its milk is supertested. All because of Maynard, the legend!
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I like how no one is wearing gloves, masks , or eyewear. That farmer who was spraying pesticide def got cancer .
استغفر الله العضبم سبحان الله العضبم الحمد لله
So much has changed from then to now. Everything is so inhumane. 😟
Do you work on a farm?
Local and organic
Yeah but you got to understand there’s millions more gallons needed now. You need enough food to feed billions
Got Milk ?
U are a lier that's not even a year