How to make your own ice cream? 1940s - Archive Film 1015873

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1015873 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ This film is a short information film from the 1940's about the ice cream making process, both home made and industrial. Close ups of ice cream being scooped into glass sundae dishes , close ups of ice cream scoops out of a tub of ice cream, ice cream scoop into a cone or cornet . The ice creams are also covered with chocolate and other sauces. Mother and two children in the kitchen are going to make their own home made ice cream. Mother consults a hand written recipe book. Close up of a page from the recipe book showing how to make vanilla ice cream. We see two pints of milk, a jar of sugar, an egg, a pack of gelatine and a small bottle of vanilla extract. View of mother mixing ingredients in a saucepan. Larry helps by mixing some ingredients in a bowl, he hands the bowl to mother. Mother adds contents of bowl to the rest of the mixture. Back to recipe for vanilla ice cream. Mother measures out milk, adding it to the mixture and then stirring. Nancy gives vanilla extract to mother. See mother together with children, taking the vanilla. Close up of her measuring out a tablespoon of vanilla. Larry looks on eagerly. Mother mixes 'the mix'. Larry holds the freezer can as mother pours in the mixture and Nancy watches. Nancy then adds the dasher to the freezer can, which continuously stirs the ice cream as it freezes. View of ice and rock salt being poured into a bucket or pail. Mother pours the ice and rock salt into a barrel containing the freezer can and it is crushed by Larry as his sister looks on. Close up of crank crushing the ice. Mother removes the dasher from the can to reveal the ice cream. Larry licks the ice cream from the dasher. Children take it in turns to taste the ice cream as mother looks on. View of large ten-gallon milk canister being carried along a conveyor belt. Row of canisters with tags that are inspected by a man. Close up of tag that shows the milk to contain 36% raw cream. A man dressed in white pours the milk into a weighing machine. He pours another canister of milk into the machine. View of the dial showing the weight of the milk. The worker pulls the lever to release the milk. Milk goes into a vat or pasteuriser where a man walks across to the valve. He opens the valve. We see the milk pouring into the vat as the propeller begins to churn. See a man inspecting the machines. Next he takes a measure of powdered egg for the mix. Close up of man looking at the scales to make sure that he is adding the right amount to the mix. Takes a spoonful of gelatine from a different barrel and adds it to the can together with the powdered egg. Can of powdered egg and gelatine is added to the vat of milk. Close up of milk and other ingredients being mixed together. Close up of a pipe that adds sugar syrup to the mix. Worker closes vat lid to allow pasteurisation to take place. View of the special thermometer. Detail of a thermometer reading of the mixture. Operator inspects the gauge and releases a valve. Now see another operator activating the homogeniser which is where the milk goes next. Pistons or pumps working to pump the mix through the homogeniser. Man turning a handle. View of a pressure gauge operated by a handle. Operator opens a large door to the cooling foils. See the ice cream collect in a trough at the bottom as another operator takes a sample. Sample is poured into a jar for testing. Large tank containing mix. Operator approaches the bottom of the tank. He turns a valve. Then he moves onto the flavouring vat and adds pure vanilla extract to the mix. Close up of the mix being stirred together with the vanilla. Move onto steel pipes that lead to freezer. Close up of motor inside the freezer that turns the dasher. Close up of ice cream being packed into a cardboard container, 2 1/2 gallons each. Operator dips his hands into chlorine water. Then he continues to change containers as they fill up. Close up of ice-cream being levelled off and stamped. Tubs of ice cream move along conveyor to hardening room. For the full catalogue description, please visit - https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ #history #nostalgia #icecream #home #industrial #1940s #sundaes Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced