Milk and Ice Cream Plant Staffed by South Vietnamese Serves GIs, South Vietnam

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OF NEWSFILM RELEASE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (PUBLIC AFFAIRS) AMERICA WASHINGTON, D.C. - 20301 STATES OF PLEASE NOTE DATE IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 1968 OX 7-6161 Number: V-277-68 Footage 681 Time 1:53 Room 2E 773 Filmed: 20, 21 August 1968 16mm color composite print MILK AND ICE CREAM PLANT STAFFED BY SOUTH VIETNAMESE SERVES GI'S (Official Department of Defense motion picture film by the U.S. Army under the direction of the MAC V Office of Information. Photography by Sp6 Cauchi and Sp5 Price; sound by Sp5 Lopez. ) A multimillion dollar plant in South Vietnam is turning out milk and ice cream by the thousands of gallons, much to the delight of American GI's and to the economic benefit of the forty-five Vi etnamese nationals working there. The facility, located at Qui Nhon, is completely self-contained and, except for powdered milk raw materials shipped from the U.S. is completely self-sufficient. Each month, over 400,000 gallons of milk, forty thousand gallons of ice cream and 35,000 pounds of cottage cheese are processed and made available to American GI's throughout the countryside. The plant, supervised now by a major stateside ice cream manufacturer, is being amor- tized by the Army at so much per quart of milk. The U.S. Army expects to own the entire plant by July of next year. SEQUENCES SCENE FOOTAGE VIDEO AUDIO 5 (a) Exterior milk and ice cream plant Wild track 17 (b) Automated machines shape and fill cartons 11 8 (c) Girl packs filled milk cartons into box 3 (d) Man adjusts controls on ice cream machine 11 6 (e) Girl and man fill ice cream containers 11 14 (f) Ice cream and milk containers down belt " (g) GI's eating ice cream in mess hall 11 15 NOTE TO EDITOR: 681 16mm color composite print released to ABC-TV, CBS-TV, NBC-TV, UPI-Newsfilm, Fox Movietone and a master and optical track to Deluxe Lab. EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY. This is a "V" series color composite print released to each individual DOD pool member and is available commercially to non-pool members and other authorized agencies fro Deluxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York City, telephone Circle 7-3220.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases