Of Town and Country
Of Town and Country is a short film from 1955 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
PRESENTS THE ICE CREAM INDUSTRY AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF TOWN & COUNTRY, POINTING UP FACTORS IN ECONOMICS & SCIENCE WHICH INFLUENCE THE GROWTH OF AN INDUSTRY. SHOWS ICE CREAM BEING MADE.
Much ado about the dairy industry: excellent shots of cows; dairy farms; eating and making of ice cream; tractors; trucks and trains; ice trucks; milk trucks; fruit;
Stock shots: CU cow's face; cow herd in field being moved by boy and dog, farm buildings on horizon line;
urban skyline is panned [RICK IT IS A RECOGNIZABLE CITY MAYBE BALTIMORE, WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A LOOK?] trucks and traffic; Milk tank truck; idyllic long shot of horse entering large red and white horse barn; red tractor; medium shot farm family;
tractor is Farmall brand;
excellent color shot of girl eating ice cream cone; CU dog's face with tongue hanging out; Unusual shot: dog eats girl's ice cream cone; boy ties dog up at parking meter
man washing face outdoors at pump; boy leading cow along on a lead; man milking cow; woman churning cream; boy turning crank to make ice cream; eating ice cream out doors;
CU sign: Delicious ice cream; old fashioned ice cream manufacturing;
Ice truck delivering big blocks of ice
high tension wires; ports; bananas being unloaded;
grove of pecan trees; full-screen CU shelled pecans; peaches being picked and crated; CU cherries on the vine, being picked and in a bucket; sugar cane being loaded onto transports;
cows standing at milking machines; milk truck with Jefferson, MD sign on it;
Much ice cream manufacturing footage: actual ice cream plant; workers inside factory; sampling of milk; testing of milk in laboratory; animation of workings of ice cream machinery;
retail displays of ice cream; pistachio ice cream being dished into elegant bowls; cake and pie ala mode| Of Town and Country | |
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| Produced by | Educational Research Films (Washington, DC) |
Production companies | Educational Research Films (Washington, DC) |
| Distributed by | Educational Research Films (Washington, DC) |
Release date | 1955 |
Running time | 14:00 |
| Language | English |
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