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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