"20TH CENTURY BREAD MAKING" BUETER BAKING CO. PROMOTIONAL FILM GG38105

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This film "20th Century Bread Making" (1940s) contrasts traditional, primitive bread-making methods with the modern, large-scale, and highly scientific processes of a 20th-century American bakery. The film was made by Paul Hoefler Productions and promotes the Bueter Baking Co.(but at least one other version was also released to promote Langendorf Bakers). Story by David Arlen, narrated by Hal Gibney. (Note: T.H. Bueter Baking Company was based in Quincy, Illinois.)

0:00 Main titles. The film opens by calling bread "the staff of life". The narrator announces a tour of bread-making techniques from around the world.
1:18 The first stop is Ensenada Bay in Mexico, where a baker named Rositas makes tortillas. Her "bakery" is a backyard with a wood fire and a simple oven.
2:30 The film then moves to a Zuni Indian village in New Mexico. The Zuni people are shown husking corn and grinding it into flour using two stones.
4:11 A Zuni woman makes a "paper bread" from corn flour and water.
4:36 Another Zuni squaw is shown kneading dough by hand. The bread is shaped and baked in a primitive oven, with the ashes raked out by a pine-branch broom.
5:53 The film notes that while this bread is "dead white" and heavy, it is still a "vital necessity to life" for the Zuni.
6:16 The film presents a "complete and amazing contrast" by taking the viewer to a great American baking plant that produces thousands of loaves daily.
6:26 The process begins with flour being delivered by railcars and stored for up to three months to improve its quality. The flour is tested in a laboratory for quality and flavor before being blended and sifted through fine screens to ensure purity.
7:41 The film details the automatic process of mixing the "sponge" (flour, yeast, and water). Huge, spotless steel machines mix the ingredients, a process that is said to be more efficient than hand-mixing.
8:35 The sponge is placed in a temperature- and humidity-controlled dough room for about 5 hours to rise.
9:04 The sponge is then mixed with other ingredients, including sugar, salt, shortening, and milk. No human hands touch the dough.
10:54 After the dough rises again in an air-conditioned room, it is sent to a machine called a "divider," which cuts 160 pieces per minute.
11:17 The pieces are rounded, proofed, and molded by machine. Some loaves are hand-twisted by an expert baker.
12:14 The loaves are then placed in a proof room for an hour to rise to the proper size.
12:33 They are baked in modern ovens, either a "tunnel" or "tray" type, where the bread is transformed into a "golden brown loaf."
13:35 After baking, the bread is placed on a cooling rack and then in a special cooling chamber, where a high vacuum quickly brings each loaf to a uniform temperature to prevent it from becoming soggy.
14:13 The bread is sliced by high-speed band saws and wrapped in an airtight package.
15:17 Delivery system, showing spotless trucks with driver-salesmen who ensure the bread is "oven fresh" for customers.
15:57 The role of bread in a healthy, modern life. It is described as a principal source of energy that builds muscles and keeps people healthy.
16:09 Images of men working in various industries—stoking trains, building power lines, and piloting airplanes—are shown to demonstrate the energy provided by bread.
17:01 An airplane mechanic is shown eating a sandwich made with "thick, generous slabs of fresh bread".
18:17 The importance of bread in a child's diet is emphasized. Children are shown eating bread with great appetite.
19:09 Bread provides the "vitality for daily exercise."
20:02 L.A. Coliseum. Americans are the "healthiest, happiest, most content" people and that bread, prepared by scientific bakers, is a key component of that health and well-being. It encourages the audience to "eat more bread."

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