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To Make The Best

1961 , King's Lynn (Norfolk)

Cat no. 843

A Campbell's promotional film, shown to visitors at the King's Lynn soup factory for over a decade.

Although the film features Campbell's soup factory in the US, its food lab, seed library and experimental plots, the content is largely about the factory at King's Lynn. Fenland crops of celery, lifted by women labourers, are destined for the factory kitchens where other ingredients such as peas, potatoes and parsley are prepared by hand. Soup is made and quality control checks are thorough. The boxed cans are loaded onto railway trucks and hauled away by a shunting engine. Views of London and supermarkets follow. Campbell's own home economists try recipe experiments. The film closes with the exterior of the King's Lynn facility.

Featured Buildings

Campbell's Soup Factory

Keywords

Agriculture; Factories; Factory workers; Food manufacture; Food technology; Women workers

Other Places

London; United States of America

Background Information

The Hardwick Road factory in King's Lynn made soup and other food products from 1959. The site closed in 2007.

Manifestations

To Make The Best

  • Barcode
    INV326558
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:18:45
    Modification Date
    15/10/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    731757
  • Barcode
    INV396210
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:18:45
    Modification Date
    15/10/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    731756
  • Barcode
    INV312829
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:18:45
    Modification Date
    15/10/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    731752
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV317963
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    DV digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:18:45
    Modification Date
    10/05/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    708413
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV229521
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    master digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:18:47
    Modification Date
    13/10/2010
    Parts
    Reference
    693889
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV176658
    Canonical Identifier
    TB 17
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    Umatic tape
    Dimension
    Identifier
    Modification Date
    30/07/2008
    Parts
    Reference
    674690
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV180058
    Canonical Identifier
    TB 591
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    Umatic tape
    Dimension
    Identifier
    Modification Date
    23/07/2008
    Parts
    Reference
    673602
  • Barcode
    INV254763
    Canonical Identifier
    VP-1037
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Duration
    0:22:00
    Identifier
    Modification Date
    25/06/2021
    Parts
    Reference
    563402
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV209213
    Canonical Identifier
    A-1008
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Details
    Carrier Type
    16mm film
    Colour Type
    colour
    Has Sound
    Y
    Identification Notes
    Picture: combined (data migration 25/06/2021)
    Identifier
    Image Polarity
    positive
    Modification Date
    25/06/2021
    Parts
    Reference
    561201
    Sound
    sound

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