Synopsis
Tour through the operations of the Hormel Company. Includes all parts of the meatpacking and processing EXCEPT slaughtering. Shows beef, pigs, pork, bacon, sausage, hotdogs, frankfurters, portion control, steaks, etc. Excellent shots (at opening) of rural Minnesota farm, with boys putting letter in rural mailbox and lifting up the mailbox flag, then, taking letter out of rural mailbox. Great shots of products on conveyor belts and by-products (like jello) displayed on a rotating table (really good jello/steak/hamburger footage on rotating table). The sound-track (narration) keeps reminding you that your mouth is supposed to be watering even as you watch pigs and cows skinned and hacked up.
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Details
- Running time
- 30 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0259_This_Is_Hormel_06_00_00_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Holy Hormel! · Spuzz · 2017-06-14
Kids! A word of advice for you... Don't you dare ask your dad to take you on a trip to the Hormel Plant! Otherwise, your dad will accompany you in a ridiculous bowler hat that looks straight from a halloween kit, while you watch pig carcasses get 'disassembled'!! Shoulders to the ham department! Fat to the gelatin department! Pigs feet to the.. pig's feet department! (They're a delicious delicacy!). Really loved the cow hide removal demo, yum. This film has the bubbliest chirpy music for a film about pig carcasses ever made. Bonus points for the cheap cheap title cards! This is a MUST SEE on…