In 1912, Dandy Hams and Bacon commenced at premises located in Dandenong, Melbourne. This short film is a rare record of Dandenong’s first major industry and features reminiscences by Maurie Jarvis (filmmaker Sue Jarvis’s father) who worked at Dandy from the age of 15 until he retired, first as a truck driver and then as a Sales Manager. Now aged 86 Maurie remembers quite fondly of his time at the Dandy Bacon Factory and talks about its operations and processes to a background of rare archival images of the factory buildings, its machinery and its workers. Sadly none of these buildings now exist.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1005343
Language
English
Audience classification
ACMI classified
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Cities and towns
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Victoria - Description and travel
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Victoria - Social life and customs
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Memory
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Colour
Holdings
DVCAM; Master
Digital Betacam; Master
MPEG-2 Digital File; Memory Grid Pod Full Encode
Digital Betacam; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
VHS [PAL]; Copy
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan