Operation Tin-Can (1960)

The opening of a tin of plum pudding from the Boer War at The British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association in Leatherhead, Surrey, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of canning C/U of Mr Ship’s hands being helped into a pair of rubber gloves by two rubber-gloved hands; C/U of his head and shoulders as he finishes putting them on. M/S of Mr Selby placing a glass ball on the gas measuring machine; C/Us of a glass section of the machine as it fills with mercury. M/S of the machine; Mr Selby bangs a piece of metal piping into the top of a tin of plum pudding from the Boer War to take a sample of the gas that has collected in the small space at the top of the tin. The mercury moves down along the glass piping in the measuring machine as Mr Selby examines various parts of it and makes adjustments. M/S as Mr Ship and Miss Cox walk towards a large incubator-type cabinet. To remove a sample of the plum pudding they work with their rubber-gloved hands sticking through circular holes in the cab