“ CANDY AND NUTRITION ” 1947 CONFECTIONERS' ASSOCIATION PROMO FILM CHOCOLATE & HARD CANDY XD86415

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RKO Radio Pictures presents this film "Candy and Nutrition", which was made for the National Confectioners' Association (NCA) in 1947 to explain the manufacture of candy, and its place in a normal diet. The NCA still exists and promotes chocolate, candy, gum and mints, and the companies that make these treats. The film was directed by Lloyd Durant and written by Oviatt McConnell.
Athletic imagery -- baseball, bowling, skiing, an obstacle course is run by Boy Scouts (1:01). Fabric is woven on a mechanical loom, and a fashion show is shown (1:35). A man purchases candy at a store (1:53). A boy looks at lollipops (2:00) and he and a girl are shown on roller skates. At (2:31) kids are shown in a boxing ring. Candy is to an important part of American life. Hershey supplied the US military with rations during WWII (2:40). A female sunbather is shown; the narrator claims she is still burning energy even as she relaxes (3:22). A young boy rides his bicycle (3:39) as his mother vacuums the house (3:56). Father saws wood. (4:21) A family prepares for dinner. This prepared meal is to include all seven food groups (4:37). Vegetables (4:47) and salad greens (4:54) are high producers of energy. Starchy foods (5:10) and dairy products (5:22) follow. The fifth group is meat, in this case a roast (5:36). Grains (5:48) and butter make up the final groups (6:04). Candy is passed around the table for desert (6:12). A mother checks a government designed food chart she has stuck to the inside of her pantry (6:40). It notes along the bottom of the chart one was to eat the basic seven foods and then eat anything else you might want (6:48). Junior approaches his mother midday with a bit of hunger (7:12). She reaches for a sweet treat (7:28). The film claims candy falls into the class of an ‘energy food’ (7:54). Royce Hall at UCLA (8:04). Viewers visit the Chemistry Department (8:14). A man within explains dextrose (8:34) and how the body uses it. He explains how the body ‘suffers’ without sugar (9:17). A candy manufacturing plant is visited (9:58). Dairy cows (10:11) rest at a dairy farm. Large loaves of butter are pictured (10:18). Honey is drawn from bees at a bee farm (10:27). Two women unload a hoard of apples plucked from orchards (10:31). Field workers pluck grapes and citrus fruits (10:44). Pineapples from Hawaii roll down a conveyor belt (10:53). Tree climbers search for figs (11:00). Dates are supplied from Iraq and Iran (11:06). Coconuts are pulled from Central America and the Philippines (11:20). Peanuts are unloaded from Dixie (11:30). Women work to separate almonds (11:39). Cacao sacks are piled atop one another (12:05). The beans are from Africa’s gold coast (12:11). Sugar cane, corn and beet stalks are harvested (12:19). A cane field supposedly located in India, but more likely Hawaii (12:37). During this time period about half of the US’s sugar was coming from Cuba (12:45). The sugar beet was a considerably newer source of sugar (12:55). A modern candy factory (13:22). Candy bar production (13:36). The center is prepared, poured onto large tables and then cooled (13:49). Carmel is spread in a thick sheet (13:55). Nuts are added (13:58). The bars are drenched in chocolate (14:05). These bars are sent through cooling tunnels (14:13). The protective wrapping is added (14:19). The creation of hard candy (14:32). A hot mixture is poured onto a cold table (14:38) and flavors are added. Candy is rolled into various shapes (15:05). Machinery cuts and wraps individual pieces (15:12). The machinery used to make the candy during WWII (15:17). A mixture is laid out for cooling and cutting (15:50). This becomes fudge (15:56). Pan candy is prepared (16:03) such as Jordan Almonds. This factory produces boxed chocolates (16:40). Flavors are added and chocolate is beaten into a smooth mixture (17:36). Cream filling added (17:48). Candy is covered in chocolate (18:09). Individual pieces are assembled into boxes (18:18). People purchasing candy (19:02).
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[@bholdr----0]

Hi, I'm Troy McClure, and you might remember me from such industry films like 'Sweet Tar, Soothing Smoke!', and 'Old Growth, Big Trees Means Big Profits!' ....Sweet Candy- Its not nuts, its nut-ritious!

[@kallymavromatis123]

😂

[@budb.8560]

Troy McClure...CLASSIC!

[@Trash-Castle]

🔥

[@ajhproductions2347]

From now on, you’re smoking for two!

[@gmwcfhg]

The last few minutes of this film made me think of that classic and hilarious I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ethel get jobs in a candy factory wrapping chocolates and make themselves sick eating the sweets when they can't keep up with the conveyor belt!

[@rickm.2956]

The whole video is better if you play it at 2x speed. 😼

[@kennenandersen]

I designed a menu for my diabetic mother in law shortly before being diagnosed with the disease myself. This has satisfied my RDA of sick, twisted gallows humor. Keep up the good work!

[@catherine59226]

Candy is dandy! ❤️😁

[@OofusTwillip]

But liquor is quicker!

[@catherine59226]

@@OofusTwillip Haha! Exactly!

[@TheBinderBoneyard]

Finally, science i can get behind!

[@saxongreen78]

The Seven Food Groups: Tobacco, Liquor, Margarine, Candy, Processed Meat, Enriched Flour / Corn Starch and Bullshit.

[@SB-hy9iq]

You can make a sandwich out of bullshit

[@cfe7131]

All FDA approved!

[@sandymilton7633]

Simple times. Id go back there if i could

[@OofusTwillip]

In Britain, as recently as the 2000s, Mars Bars and other candy bars were promoted as being wholesome, with plenty of nourishing glucose. And a high-glucose drink, called Lucozade, was promoted as a nourishing drink to restore energy. About 10 years ago, it had to reduce its sugar content, to avoid being hit with the new "sugar tax", but it's still too sweet.

[@AA-ke5cu]

The Mars family presently is worth a little over 210 billion dollars. Not million; billion!!!!😮

[@xmiller7691]

This needs to sent directly to RiffTrax ASAP.

[@chillydawgg4354]

I have commented on their channel how they should come see this channel

[@DrFiero]

Based on this, and other clearly educational fact based films; I need to go get a Mars bar, glass of whisky, and pack of Marlboros. Then fill up the cadillac on high octane leaded gas. At least I'm not going to drink any of that CocaCola with its real cocaine in it! That was SO 1920s! 😂

[@OofusTwillip]

"Gotta rebuild that candy industry, after the sugar-rationing of WWII got people used to not being able to get candy. But first, we have to stress the importance of proper nutrition. Then, we can hit 'em with all the great stuff about candy." Funny thing: The teeth of ancient skeletal remains from centuries ago, before sugar became widely available in England, are remarkably good, despite a lack of any dental care. The teeth of skeletal remains from after sugar became widely available in England, are in horrible condition.

[@bluejedi723]

How to get Diabeetus 100

[@fromthesidelines]

Deleted scene: **a man in a white coat, standing beside a dentist's chair, holding a pair of "teeth pliers"** "Hello! I'm Doctor Morris Lahr! 'Mo" Lahr, for short. You just keep eating ALL the candy you want! *I'll be waiting........"* 😁

[@aarond23]

A pro candy film? lol....I don't think anyone needs to be told to eat more candy. It sells itself.

[@smokingiscool599]

Honestly, this isn't as crazy as I was expecting. If they added a section to the beginning telling people who don't get any exercise to stay away from sugar, I don't think there would be anything to complain about -- at least for the time it was made. Even the section on nutrition, where the advice was to eat the seven main food groups first and then eat other stuff after that, was pretty good; I've heard pretty similar advice in videos about bodybuilding and weight loss before.

[@bf0189]

Yeah it's not that bad. There's a reason why candy pieces are in trail mix. Because it is quick energy and has it's uses.

[@BELCAN57]

I like "The Seven Major Food Groups" in a big circle. Much easier to understand.

[@smokechub]

I LOVE IT!!! GIVE ME SOME CANDY 🍬🍭🍬🍭🍬😁

[@m.moolhuysen5456]

12:03 What an interesting pronunciation of the word "cacao", has this evolved so stongly over time?

[@ll1881ll]

And of course they pushed toxic margarine ( polyunsaturated oil)

[@OofusTwillip]

The less processed, the better. I've always preferred butter. Even when I was a little kid, I hated the fake taste of margarine.

[@AA-ke5cu]

Nasty spreadable plastic. Did you know that mayonnaise is one molecule away from plastic? Well it is.!!!😮

[@michaelkline884]

⁠Real mayonnaise is egg yolks and oil How is that close to plastic?

[@MarkHower-ne5zc]

​@AA-ke5cu I think the German U-boats used something like that to lubricate their engines. That and Crisco cooking oil too

[@brianarbenz1329]

If only I had know this, I'd have eaten lots of candy as a child... Oh, wait a minute, I _did_ eat lots of candy, and I ended up diabetic and 70 pounds over my healthy body weight.

[@So-CA_NV_AZ82]

Nutritiously informative, great video P.F.

[@briangriffin4937]

“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker” ~ Ogden Nash

[@doctorgravel8572]

3:26 Looks like that water is cold!

[@fleetcomm1]

Most of you won’t get the main theme. Sugar isn’t bad. Sitting on our butts all day is.

[@mjbasl]

1:59 That kid looks like he was hit in the face with a sledgehammer!

[@AA-ke5cu]

Probably radiation or radon damage. Duck and cover your privates.

[@MarkHower-ne5zc]

🔨🔨

[@teachgold]

"The dextrose is stored to be used later." Getting fat was not discussed. Corn syrup is good for you. ROFL

[@OofusTwillip]

It was regular corn syrup at that time, not the sickening high-fructose corn syrup that's in so many foods and drinks today.

[@mikebarushok5361]

My tooth hurts.

[@ajhproductions2347]

Wow, Timmy’s big sister is hot. She sure knows her way around a vacuum cleaner. And that apron…😍

[@J_Calvin_Hobbes]

thumb 👍

[@jakebrakebill]

ok I'm buying 5 extra bags at the grocery store next time I'm there

[@jethrox827]

Lollies over here in 🇦🇺👍

[@TboneWTF]

The army also included tobacco and amphetamines in the soldiers field kit and look how that turned out! I wonder what the diabetic associations feel about this commercial?

[@chillydawgg4354]

Sugar is nutrition! Don't question it, just eat it! Eat candy now!

[@Artsalloverone]

Lies were simple back than a long with the lifestyle that goes with it,, today we can't keep track of where the lie begins and the truth ends.hahaha😊

[@SuburbanDon]

Did I miss candy suppositories ?

[@convoy814]

13:36-13:42 Ohhhh, So they were using Corn Syrup back in 1947 in Candy Bars. Hmmmmmm Interesting 🤔

[@OofusTwillip]

A bit of regular corn syrup (they didn't have HFCS then) prevents the hot candy from crystallizing into a grainy mess. They weren't using it as the main sweetening agent, like HFCS is used today.

[@convoy814]

@@OofusTwillip oh, okay. Thank you for the information.

[@gkeic]

Amazing propaganda from the sugar industry.

[@okamijubei]

Imagine that what the oil industries are doing with films similar to those

[@brianarbenz1329]

The sugar industry bought scientists, filmmakers, TV shows, and lawmakers. Reality was re-defined for us by the sugar business.

[@ajhproductions2347]

See, they knew we can do our own research now, we just have to actually want to do it lol

[@jfchonors8873]

I thought the major food groups were salt, sugar and fat

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

Who gets to lick the smoothing bar? ✌🤢👍

[@MarkHower-ne5zc]

😋

[@fizjoterapiasan9359]

Disturbing noone wore gloves those days while touching food. Today unthinkable.

[@hbailey1180]

Sugar caused my ADHD!

[@kc4cvh]

Except for absence of mineral and vitamin content, tooth decay, diabetes and obesity, candy is fine food.

[@mosslandia]

Of course too much sugar is bad for us. But in the 40s when this film was made, we didn't eat processed foods filled with sugar . . . and chemicals with unknown toxicity. Meanwhile, the whole foods we ate were more nutricious, not bioengineered either. Just sayin'. 🍭🍬🍫🍬🍭😁

[@SB-hy9iq]

Oxymoron 🧐

[@convoy814]

Did he say RAW CABBAGE 🥬?

[@michaelkline884]

Yes raw red cabbage in tossed salad

[@mothman7430]

i think we can safely say with modern science that this reel is corporate propaganda at its finest, still worth preserving but MAN.

[@budb.8560]

Pure American propaganda

[@sigurdjohnson6617]

4,000 calories for a teenager. Yikes!

[@mikebarushok5361]

Actually 4000 calories is fine for teenagers with a healthy amount of physical activity. It's very easy to burn 250 calories per hour at a constant moderate amount of exertion.

[@wesleyrodgers886]

Amazingly white... 😶😶😶😶

[@davidcora2751]

God bless our controlling government ☹️☹️. Most likely even more currently?