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This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.
To a Queen's Taste (The Making of Candy) / Fire Prevention Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Workers put ingredients into large vat, mix ingredients in vat - vat churns ingredients - machine coating candy with chocolate. “Machine-dipped chocolates.” Workers break apart pieces, pieces are conveyed on belt - machine dipped - workers hand apply chocolate where it has not taken. “Hand dipping. 89% of sugar used in U.S. goes into manufacturing candy.” “Here my wife showed some knowledge, having emptied many a box. The nation’s candy bill…” Workers box candy. “All the nuts are not of this country. Here are some from Brazil which are being dipped in bon-bon cream.” “Cutting nougats into proper size.” “Coating almonds. The candy industry employs about 80,000 in this country.” “Mixing color with hard candy…” “Fancy, a fancy candy basket.” Mixing ingredients by hand - hand making a candy basket - artificial flowers and leaves are assembled and attached to handle of basket - ribbon and bow is attached. “-- all made by hand in everything. In this country the output of candy per year amounts to one billion pounds.” Completed candy basket - woman opens completed candy basket - woman opens box of candy, offers candy to man. [1921] b. “When traced to their source, 6o% of these fires have a trivial and entirely preventable beginning.” Man reading a magazine and smoking in bed, falls asleep. Man lights cigarette while sitting at desk, drops match into waste basket, leaves desk, waste basket catches on fire. “15,219 people were burned to death in 1920 and 17,691 others seriously burned. Simple in its beginning -- tragic may be its end; to prevent fires.” Children playing at table, mother leaves house - children poke into trash fire in ally. “Hot ashes must be kept in metal receptacles and away from combustible material if fires are to be checked.” Wooden trash barrel catches on fire from hot ashes. “Numerous as the reasons resulting in fires may be, yet the simple question, ‘Do you know how to turn in a fire alarm?’ will set thousands guessing.” Man runs down street to fire alarm box. “To send in an alarm -- break glass, turn the key, open door, pull down hook once and let go -- then wait.” “In the meantime the alarm is received at Central Station from where it is transmitted to all other stations. 15 seconds from the time the box is ‘pulled’ the fire apparatus is on the street.” Man sets siren mechanism - firemen jump from cots, dress, slide down pole, check location, climb into fire engine. “The sender of the alarm directs the firemen to the fire.” “For the upkeep of fire protection together with its enormous fire loss, the country is spending daily $2,000,000.” Fire engine arrives on scene, firemen climb from engine, roll out hose, climb ladder into building, train fire hose on building, remove victim of fire. Firemen on fire escape raise hose up building. “But not always does fire claim its victim.” Firemen spread net, man jumps from window of building into net - firemen use axes - burned out building - firemen soak ruins. “Why is it that New York City must have 40,000 firemen while Detroit requires only 1,200 and London, England, but 1,500?” Fire engine leaving fire station, followed by horse-drawn engine, race down residential street. Woman ironing leaves to answer door, iron drops into clothes basket. “But here’s Norah, who might be anybody’s maid.” Woman talks with man on porch, returns to fire in kitchen. “‘You’re fired!’ were the warm words of her mistress.” Woman rushes to well, pumps water into bucket, but there is a hole in bucket, she throws it away - maid crying, clothes burning in basket. “The accumulation of rubbish in any industrial plant is a menace and invites disaster at the hands of careless workers. Waste paints, oily rags, etc. when properly cared for will never cause spontaneous combustion.” Supervisor directs worker - rubbish catches on fire, fire doused with a hose - worker lights cigarette, throws match into trash pile - man with extinguisher puts out fire. “If the city is graced with a harbor and the usual docks that fringe its shore -- a new kind of firefighter makes its appearance.” Fireboat. “The land force lends a hand.” Firemen fight fire in industrial building. [1921]
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