[BUTTER BOXES]

Rights Information
Year
1925
Reference
F10039
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1925
Reference
F10039
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
In-House
Duration
0:05:00
Production company
NZ RADIO FILMS
Credits
Camera: Edwin Coubray

Disjointed sequences of the manufacture of butter boxes at a factory . Names on boxes: “Cambridge”, “Lotus”, “Ensign”, “Ruawai”, “Oxford”.

Workmen's hands sawing wood for boxes.
Rolling machinery printing the ends of boxes. Man in suit and hat stacks machine.
Pile of box ends.
Box ends being printed by the machine.
Box end which reads, “New Zealand Produce - Ensign - pure Creamery Butter” held up by workmens' hands, then stacked.
Man at machine constructing the sides of boxes. Pan left to a man who puts the bottoms on.
Machine and mans hands holding the box.
Two men checking and nailing the boxes. Sanding the edges.
Man in timber yard sorting timber.
Timber being fed into machine.
Machinery processing timber.
Man receiving sawn timber.
Timber moving down bench.
Timber passing through machine.
Men sawing lengths.
Piles of timber being carried to the sawing bench, where two men saw lengths into strips.
Men carrying finished boxes.
Timber being shaped by machine into hexagonal shapes.
This process. M.S. of men nailing sides to piles of hexagonal timber and stacking them.
Men hauling logs.
Machinery piercing them.
Revolving log.
Men at machines.