Beef Rings the Bell (Part I)
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- Publication date
- ca. 1960s
- Usage
- Public Domain
Beef's importance to American society and economy, and the Union Pacific Railroads's importance to the beef industry.
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EXCELLENT shots (in beautiful color) of cattle ranches, cowboys herding cattle, cattle auction. Butcher cutting sides of beef. SUPERB early 1960s backyard barbecue (at roughly 0:24:00), CU hamburgers cooking on the grill. Early 1960s family eating hamburgers outdoors in their backyard. Great shot (at 0:25:08) of man wearing chef's hat and apron ("Genius At Work") putting thick, juicy steaks on the barbecue grill. For barbecue shots, you couldn't do better than this film!!
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- 2002-07-16 00:00:00
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- asr
- Closed captioning
- no
- Collectionid
- 09398a
- Color
- C
- Country
- United States
- External-identifier
- urn:cid:bafybeibmqpkcbooaotprmk6dq7ifufest4sav7ap7hehcjik5bomldisoa
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- boost
- Identifier
- BeefRing1960
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- baga6ea4seaqgcauvtc5zy6jts3jrjhjs42wscv54nuxwcuoit2sjnna6lx3s2jq
- Numeric_id
- 162
- Proddate
- ca. 1960s
- Run time
- 13:23
- Sound
- Sd
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- MovingImage
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- 20230731.02
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Reviewer:
Betmates
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August 12, 2022
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Reviewer:
Christine Hennig
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December 1, 2003
Subject: A Film About Rich, Red Meat
Subject: A Film About Rich, Red Meat
This is a film about meat. About big honkin slabs of red meat. Beef, in particular. The first half is all about cattle raising, selling, and feeding. It has footage of the Omaha stockyards in their heydey, when they used to be the biggest in the world. Being from Omaha, this had some nostalgic value for me, as those stockyards no longer exist. The footage of a cattle auction is also mildly interesting. But its not until the second half of the movie that it really gets going. Then it becomes the most meat-intensive film you ever saw, featuring extensive, detailed footage of meat cutting, long refrigerated cases of shrink-wrapped packages of rich, red meat, billboards with giant steaks on them, and backyard barbecue footage straight out of the Big Boy Barbecue Guide (I also collect old recipe booklets), including tacky barbecue aprons and huge steaks served charred on the outside and bloody red on the inside. Which makes it a great deal of fun in my book, though its definitely not for vegetarians.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ****. Weirdness: ****. Historical Interest: *****. Overall Rating: ****.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ****. Weirdness: ****. Historical Interest: *****. Overall Rating: ****.
Reviewer:
Spuzz
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January 10, 2003
Subject: Oh! The IRONY! The IRONY!
Subject: Oh! The IRONY! The IRONY!
This is, of course a salute to beef.
The film starts out with a dreadful animation of a cow ringing a bell indicating dinner. (GET it? BEEF rings the BELL?)
After that comes a wonderful plateau of cows roaming the open range, chewing grass, being herded, chewing grass, being branded. "The cows, soon, go in one direction" the narrator says, and yes thats right.. "To Market". Soon, you're just DREADING where this film is heading. The film slowly builds on that (The narrator seems to know this as well lol) and takes us through the cows being loaded on (Union Pacific!) railcars, being auctioned off, being kept in holding pens, and then.... We cut AFTER the dirty part, the slab of beef is on a hook! (Cheaters!) Anyways, if you're somewhat dissapointed in the skipping of the most OBVIOUS step, the actual cutting up of the carcass into different selections of beef will certainly appease you, as the butcher digs in with his knife, fat falling off the carcass, and us losing our lunches. The narrator hilariously says during all of this, 'the thought of this beef, with dripping gravy on fluffy mashed potatoes!' The whole thing ends off with not one but TWO barbecues, with big juicy steaks and plump hamburgers! Mmmmm! A very INTERESTING film to say the least.
The film starts out with a dreadful animation of a cow ringing a bell indicating dinner. (GET it? BEEF rings the BELL?)
After that comes a wonderful plateau of cows roaming the open range, chewing grass, being herded, chewing grass, being branded. "The cows, soon, go in one direction" the narrator says, and yes thats right.. "To Market". Soon, you're just DREADING where this film is heading. The film slowly builds on that (The narrator seems to know this as well lol) and takes us through the cows being loaded on (Union Pacific!) railcars, being auctioned off, being kept in holding pens, and then.... We cut AFTER the dirty part, the slab of beef is on a hook! (Cheaters!) Anyways, if you're somewhat dissapointed in the skipping of the most OBVIOUS step, the actual cutting up of the carcass into different selections of beef will certainly appease you, as the butcher digs in with his knife, fat falling off the carcass, and us losing our lunches. The narrator hilariously says during all of this, 'the thought of this beef, with dripping gravy on fluffy mashed potatoes!' The whole thing ends off with not one but TWO barbecues, with big juicy steaks and plump hamburgers! Mmmmm! A very INTERESTING film to say the least.