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

0703 PA8668 Beatrice Foods News Reports from Around the World


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Reviewer: Christine Hennig - - November 15, 2003
Subject: Or Kansas Underground
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 kitchen, so this held my interest. Theres lots of factory footage for folks who like that sort of thing. And the last segment, about the underground storage facility, is the weirdest. The employees of the facility have their lunches in a Caveteria, a name that is so lame its brilliant. But the most interesting thing is the Atlas Wire Products Company, a company that rents underground space for its factory from the facility. This company makeare you ready for this?wire racks! Get it?? Kansas?? Wire racks?? Thats where the guy in Speech: Using Your Voice, a Centron production, got his nifty wire rack! It has to be! This is just too handy to be a coincidence! This blows the lid off the whole Kansas-Centron-public speaking-evaporated milk-wire rack conspiracy! Iwhat?
OhOK, Ill take my meds and go to bed now.
Ratings: Camp/Humor Value: ***. Weirdness: ***. Historical Interest: ****. Overall Rating: ****.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - October 13, 2003
Subject: Following The Beatrice
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!) this one is REALLY standard.