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Silent black & white publicity film for New Zealand honey.
Opens with a domestic scene of a father and his children seated at a table for breakfast. While enjoying honey and toast the daughter is curious where honey comes from and the father endeavours to explain.
Intertitle: “In New Zealand, with its plentiful sunshine and flowers, the Busy Bee makes millions of pounds of honey every year.”
Views of various apiaries and beekeepers tending to their hives.
Making wax cells and selecting larvae to breed new queens. Steps of raising the new queens and then putting one with some workers in to a postage cage.
A man hosts a colony of bees on his torso (over a shirt) for the camera.
Quality control inspection is carried out prior to honey export. Bulk tins of honey are packed in wooden crates which are stamped for shipping. In London the crates are hoisted from the Thames to a packing factory where the warmed honey is dispensed in to freshly labelled jars. The sealed jars are packed in to cartons for distribution.
Toy mascots of “Imperial Bee” are being packaged for a coupon collecting promotion. Other promotional materials include a jar stand and an anamatronic window display. Honey is delivered to Lady Margaret Hospital in Kent where Dr. Josiah Oldfield recommends it for patients and children.