The Staff Of Life - A Measure Of Progress (1930)

“Bread-making gives eloquent testimony to the advance of civilisation from primitive days to the present. The primitive woman had first to grind the flour...“ High angle of a woman posing as a “primitive woman“ - with dishevelled hair and dirty clothes she crouches on the ground grinding wheat. A fire burns beside her as she shelters under some rocks. C/U of the woman, she is wearing an animal skin outfit and grinding the flour between two rocks. C/U of the grinding process. “Nowadays, the baker receives his flour already ground... by the ton!“ L/S of sacks of flour being wheeled into a warehouse. Our primitive woman mixes the flour with water by hand. She then kneads the dough on top of the stone. We see the automatic dough mixer “of today.“ C/U of dough being mixed and pouring out the other end. C/U of our cavewoman kneading her dough. C/U of the dough. She separates the dough into smaller pieces. The automated version of this is seen. Small pieces of dough travel on a conveyor belt with