STK-ID 24249

Sequence on Dominion stores employees taking in goods in warehouse, rolling boxes and crates rapidly on roller conveyors, stacking boxes on truck and moving out. MSs, CUs of checker at cash register, customers, goods being checked, packer packing, woman paying and getting change back. Various shots of personnel refilling shelves, of customers shopping, of children. Shots in warehouse showing men stocking or moving boxes of foodstuffs on roller conveyors. Walking HAS of vegetable counter, of men moving lettuce back into stock room, filling shelves with radishes, turnips. Shot of National Film Board director Werner Aellen buying apples by the pound, having it weighed. FOLLOW SHOT of packages of hamburgers being wrapped and priced automatically. Shot of butcher cutting down slab of beef in shop, of vegetable man trimming heads of lettuce. Shots of vegetables, fruits in boxes stacked in stock room. CU of bananas in box. CU of turnips being priced individually. Shots of butchers trimming meat, packaging calf livers.

DETAILS

Excerpt from
Supermarkets
Location
Montreal
Year
1964
Collection
National Film Board
Available formats
Video HI 8, Reel 16 mm
Shooting format
16mm original ektachrome
Aspect ratio
4/3