ANCHOR FILM PARADE

Rights Information
Year
1955
Reference
F22963
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1955
Reference
F22963
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Duration
0:25:00
Production company
Robert Steele Productions
Credits
Presenter: NZ Co-Op Dairy Co Ltd
Camera: Sigmund Spath

A documentary on dairy farming and processing, focusing on Waikato dairy farms. Sequences of top dressing, butter making, cheese making, the manufacture of tin cans in Frankton, and timber milling. Condensed milk, and milk powder, is produced and put to use in the making of cakes and biscuits.

Includes scenes of: The Waitoha factory; a pig farm; coal mining in the Waikato; Milk Treatment plant in Epsom.

Includes historical dramatisations of butter making in ‘the old days’.