https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/e38c0f60-90cd-453d-b4a6-f39a647de5f0 “From Seville to Sunglow” (c.1950s) is a color promotional film by William Moorhouse & Sons Ltd aka Moorhouses of Leeds, who advertised themselves as makers of ‘England’s Finest’ jams, marmalades, lemon curd and Christmas puddings. This film in particular, takes an in-depth look at how Moorhouse produced their famous orange marmalade beginning in Seville, Spain at an orange orchard and ending at the William Moorhouse & Sons Ltd Sunglow Model Factory near Leeds. William Moorhouse & Sons was founded by its namesake in the late 1800s, with its first product being "lemon cheese" as well as mincemeat and orange marmalade. In 1959 the company was bought by Schweppes along with Chivers and Hartleys (who were also jam and marmalade manufacturer's). Title page: Animation of small Sonny Sunglow caricature playing guitar (0:07). View of La Giralda bell tower and Seville Cathedral framed by orange trees (0:11). Camera pans banks of Guadalquivir River and Seville skyline, views of Plaza de Cuba, Puente de San Telmo, Torre del Oro (0:27). Orange orchard, close-up of orange trees, Spanish workers lay ladders against trees and start gathering ripe fruit into woven baskets, crates (1:06). Workers load crates onto donkeys to carry throughout farm, then loaded onto flatbed of perhaps Citroen U23 or 55 truck (2:48). Oranges sorted on mechanized conveyor belt, women individually wrap oranges in protective paper and pack into crates before crates wired shut (3:22). Truck crosses over Puente de San Telmo carrying crates of oranges heading for harbor (4:23). Port of Seville - crates of oranges loaded into hold of the “Valdavia,” British Merchant Navy flag waves in wind (4:45). Aerial view Port of Liverpool, Valdavia docked in port, oranges unloaded from hold of ship (5:16). Close-up of Sevilla Sours brand oranges stamp on side of crates (5:43). Moorhouses branded Bedford truck drives along open road towards William Moorhouse & Sons Ltd Sunglow Model Factory near Leeds (5:55). Truck pulls into snow-covered driveway of factory (6:15). Forklift trucks unload delivery into factory, workers pry open crates and dump oranges into sorting trays (6:49). Women, wearing orange gloves, gently sift through fruits and remove paper along conveyor belt (7:40). Oranges glisten after passing through washing machine, ready for inspection by Moorhouses production manager and assistant (8:26). Automated orange peeling and slicing machine, juice and heart of orange put into stainless steel basin (9:10). Shredding machine: peels sent through machine and sliced for marmalade; Close-up of peel being shot out of machine (10:25). Thick-cut chunky peel (11:03). Medium-cut peel (11:20). Fine-peel (11:28). Aerial view of machine straining, filtering orange (11:41). Factory operator worker opens air valve manufactured by Robert Kellie & Son ltd in Dundee, Scotland (12:05). British Sugar Corporation (B.S.C.) delivery tanker truck containing English refined white sugar (derived from sugar cane or sugar beets) unloaded in factory using nylon sleeve (12:44). Close-up of sugar as it is screw elevated to floor above in factory (14:05). Interior sugar-holding hopper, views of sugar as it passes through automatic weighing machine before shooting out into vat that cooks sugar down into simple sugar (14:21). Glass jars scolded and sterilized in large washing machine, supervisor inspects jars (15:13). Making of the marmalade (15:58). Marmalade automatically pumped into empty jars, jars travel along assembly line where they are continually inspected and then capped/ sealed by automated machine (17:28). Jars washed, labeled, and tested (19:00). Interior of factory lab with test tubes, bunsen burners, condensers, refractometers (19:11). Aerial view of automatic labeling machine at work (20:19). Completed jars of different marmalades pass along conveyor belt (20:39). Women speedily package, wrap jars in protective cellophane package for distribution (21:38). Moorhouses export division: boxes slated for different international destinations pass along conveyor belt - Chicago, New York, Auckland, Toronto, Johannesburg (22:25). Loads of marmalade wheeled out on trollies and put into distribution trucks on loading bays (23:14). Closing credits (24:11). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. 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