Fill ‘Em, Drink ‘Em, Break ‘Em

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1849
Date Released
9 Nov 1964
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fill ‘Em, Drink ‘Em, Break ‘Em. DESCRIPTION: A new bottling plant, has just been opened by a brewery in London, and is claimed to be the most advanced of its kind in the world. The output is about a million bottles of beer every day. Empty bottles are the main concern of a factory in Hull. They’ve designed an electrical machine which grinds a bin of bottles to smithereens. The broken glass can then be melted down, to be remoulded into more bottles. SHOTLIST: London - A new bottling plant opened - claimed to be the most advanced in the world. Tilt. Bottles on conveyor belt. Bottles coming off machine onto conveyor belt. On filling machine. CUs of same. Passing automatic counter. MSs on conveyor belt. MS two men drinking from bottles. Hull - CU pile of old bottles. Old bottles piled in dustbins. Men stack crates of bottles. MS man fitting bottle crusher over bin. CU man pushing starter button of crusher. Crusher being fed with bottles. CU man stops crusher. CU crusher blades. CU man pushes starter button again. Feeds machine with bottles. CU crushed bottles in bin.
Keywords
Food and cooking; Industry and manufacture
Locations
London; Kingston-upon-Hull
Card file number
89006
Credits:
Camera
Jackson
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Norman Fisher
Length of story (in feet)
137
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Fill ‘Em, Drink ‘Em, Break ‘Em', British Movietone News Issue No. 1849, 9 Nov 1964. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/25745 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)