Beatrice Foods News Reports from Around the World (Part I)

★★★★ · Or Kansas Underground · Christine Hennig · 2003-11-15

This early 60s film is pretty much what the title saysnews reports from all over the world about Beatrice Foods various corporate subsidiaries. We get to see milk processing on a military base in Japan, a company that makes cookware and serving utensils for restaurants, a Belgian milk processing plant, and a bizarre underground storage facility near Kansas City. This is all narrated in a way that implies that its audience finds this all fascinating. And it is, in an odd sort of way, though you have to be in the right frame of mind to appreciate it. Me, I like stuff about foods and the…

★★ · Following The Beatrice · Spuzz · 2003-10-13

The title is the first suspicious thing about this, because as some of you know, whenever you have a comapny name in a title like this you wonder if it's just going to be news reports about Beatrice Foods. Well, the film starts off ok, we're in Japan, ok.. nice travelogue.. until, uh oh! Beatrice has built a plant over there! From there, it's basically all Beatrice, we visit a plant in the US and also in Belgium, and, although there are some nice production shots of stuff being produced that you never thought you'd see (Cocktail shakers! machines to screw on caps on salt and pepper shakers!)…