"THE STORY OF ICE CREAM " 1940s BREYERS ICE CREAM PRODUCTION FILM 55194

This short film gives viewers a brief overview of ice cream production from the dairy farm to the home. The film features footage of Breyers production operations inside its ice cream plant. The film opens with a shot of someone driving down a rural road. Dairy cows graze in a field; footage shows a dairy cow being milked. The film then cuts to a creamery plant, where stainless steel tanks of cream are loaded into trucks and taken to an ice cream plant. At the Breyers plant (01:12), the cream is blended. Women measure samples of the blended cream and test them for pasteurization. Machines homogenize the ice cream (01:52). A man operates one of the machines. The film shows the large holding tanks used after homogenization (02:17). Women inspect bananas that will be used for flavoring. Women put oranges into an automatic squeezer (02:56). People harvest strawberries at a commercial patch; the film also shows a peach orchard. Men mix roasted almonds with blended cream (03:59); there are shots of the mixing vats making vanilla, orange, and chocolate ice cream. A machine chops vanilla beans. A woman packages ice cream (05:20). In a large freezer—the hardening room—a man takes packaged ice cream off a conveyer belt for hardening. The film shows the production of other ice cream products, including a machine that fills and seals two-quart containers (06:23) and a machine that produces ice cream sandwiches. Molds for Choco-pops are filled with ice cream and then dipped in chocolate (07:05). Men clean and sterilize equipment at the end of the day (07:55). The film concludes with a woman taking a carton of ice cream out of her freezer and dishing up some for her children.

Breyers is a brand of ice cream started in 1866 by William A. Breyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1866, William A. Breyer began to produce and sell iced cream in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, first from his home, and later via horse and wagon on the streets. Breyer's son Henry incorporated the business in 1908. The formerly independent Breyer Ice Cream Company was sold to the National Dairy Products Corporation in 1926. National Dairy then changed its name to Kraftco in 1969, and Kraft by 1975. Kraft sold its ice cream brands to Unilever in 1993, while retaining the rights to the name for yogurt products.

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