POWDERED SUNSHINE

Rights Information
Year
1952
Reference
F22964
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1952
Reference
F22964
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
In-House
Duration
0:23:24
Production company
robert steele motion picture production
Credits
Director: Robert Steele
Scenario: John Gundry
Camera: Robert P. Clough
With: Aunt Daisy
Producer: Robert Steele
Director of Photography: Robert Steele

The farmers of N.Z. CO-OP DAIRY CO LTD supply Anchor who make a variety of dairy products for domestic and export markets.
“Featuring the well known radio personality Aunt Daisy in the Pinex Kitchen scenes.”

Aerial views of dairy farm land. Milk processing factory. Milk products and by-products. Unloading exports.
Focus on milk powder.
Tanker trucks from farm to the Waitoa factory. Worker housing village and facilities. Coal powered furnaces and river water to make steam for electricity generation to run the factory. How milk powder is made. Quality control and laboratory testing.
Staff leisure activities.
Foods made from/with milk powder, including biscuits, ice-cream, bread and chocolate.

Aunt Daisy provides commentary and baking instructions accompanying footage of a woman, Betty, in a fabulous yellow kitchen as she prepares a pudding. Concludes with a showcase of baked desserts and Betty revealing she has a cow in the kitchen.

Anchor logo and end credits.