PERSONAL RECORD. DIXON, BARRY. RPD A DAIRY COMPANY WITH A VISION

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Year
1975
Reference
F40126
Media type
Moving image

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Year
1975
Reference
F40126
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:25:50
Credits
Photography: Barry Dixon

02:13:44 Amateur documentary explaining process of production of dairy products in dairy factory. Titles ‘Dixon Films presents’ , ‘R.P.D., A dairy company with a vision.’ ‘A quick look inside the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company’, ‘produced and directed by Barry Dixon’. Map of New Zealand, zoom in to Edgecumbe marked on map. Pan of exterior of factory buildings. Interior shots of hygiene control sign, locker room, boots stacked on top of lockers. High angle view of tankers parked up outside. Machine room. Test jars of milk, skim milk powder, casein, whey. Intertitle ‘Spray process milk powder.’ Worker on platform taking notes from machines. Hand points to diagram of plant on wall indicating movement of product. Lights on operations board.

Workers in white hats and overalls packing milk powder. Intertitle ‘Casein.’ Machines, milk product [casein] pouring into vats. Lights on board turn off. Intertitle ‘Ultrafiltration.’ view of exterior of building. Sign ‘Why the interest in Solac?’ Diagram of plant. Interior and exterior views of plant. ‘Pasilac Electronics’ board. Intertitle ‘The Warehouse.’ Worker collects paper sacks off conveyor belt and stacks them. Stacks of sacks in warehouse. Intertitle ‘Butter Factory.’ Butter factory machinery. Butter moving in as thick pipe into mound at end of machine, workers at machine making butter into big slabs. Box of butter moves along conveyor belt and disappears through wall. Boxes of ‘Creamery Butter’ moving on conveyor belt. Worker stacks boxes off conveyor belt. Worker puts large block of butter into machine, pound blocks move through machine.

Intertitle ‘The Laboratory.’ Laboratory worker stands in front of machine. Lab worker holds up test tubes and inspects them. Lab worker sitting next to machine. Machine fills tubes. Close up view of numbers on machine. View of laboratory room, glass bottles, cupboards, testing equipment. Bacteriaologist working with test products in test tubes. Close up views of petri dishes. Sign ‘Where your milk goes.’ Diagram of tanker to factory process, world map surrounded by product sacks (out of focus). Illustrated title ‘The End.’