Humbugs (1967)

Bury, Lancashire.
Several cellophane packets of humbugs are seen rolling down a conveyor belt. Various shots show how humbug sweets are made at this factory - amazing! A long length of syrup mixture is pulled about by a special machine; two men squash it into strips with treacle-coloured lengths. A huge chewy centre wrapped in a treacle 'blanket' is put on top of the squashed strips then rolled up by the men.
The huge 84lb giant sweetie is put into a twisting and stretching machine and the end of it is fed between two rollers to make a long thin strip of sweetie mixture; this is cut by the machine into lozenges. Thousands of humbugs are seen travelling along conveyor belts. Some sweets are wrapped in shiny paper by a machine.
Fabulous! This is one of my favourites!
Cuts exist - see separate record.
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[@TribeOfCooks]

The sheer terror in my imagination thinking about how easily their arms and hands could get sucked into those machines.

[@joeswanson733]

and for them... it was just another tuesday and they didn't even blink. that's just how different things were.

[@101Volts]

@@joeswanson733 I'd hope they at least had a foot pedal to turn the machine on and off. Push and hold it to keep it on, at least until you've gotten far enough in the process to bend down and hit the "stay on" switch.

[@laladeity2196]

​@@101Voltsnot at first there were a plethora of serious af tragedies that happend

[@ZombieQueeen]

😮

[@Kevin-go2dw]

Worked a pulling machine in the 80's. Dangerous if you were not paying attention. One bloke had his shirt ripped off!

[@kinetsievarvenfloot1237]

I admire Margaret's ability to work an 8-hour shift five days a week in 6-inch stilettos.

[@JameelQ]

Was thinking the same.

[@cynthiatolman326]

I said I don't think she does. Heaven forbid a woman in 1967 being filmed in anything less than her best pair of shoes.

[@101Volts]

@@cynthiatolman326 Yeah, I suppose it might have just been for filming.

[@mariantreber8055]

You mean 2 inch heels. Geeze

[@reginabillotti]

@@mariantreber8055 Heels of any length on a factory floor are silly.

[@duenge]

The day the camera is coming, I shall wear high heels to the production line....

[@LanaKaneSocks]

She knew this video was getting 3.5M views in 2022

[@rogerbeaumont4952]

Currently sat on the very spot where this factory was. Its now an Aldi bit, remember the factory well

[@101Volts]

British Pathe is currently one of my favorite KZbin channels, because of nice old footage like this. I also never know what I might find if I search under their videos something like "airplane," "snowball," or "potato."

[@101Volts]

Update: I searched "pig," and got footage of pigs on a pig swing. There was also footage of teaching a pig to jump, and a pig-calling contest. This channel has much that I might not have otherwise been exposed to.

[@matthewtrow5698]

My uncle Jack worked in this factory, back in 1965. I remember him telling me how the humbug mixture would frequently get wrapped around workers necks, pulling them into the machinery. If you look at around 1:29, those lads manhandling the giant sticky lump are actually in considerable danger. Uncle Jack saw more than a few blokes end up inside a humbug, sucked down the production line head first. Margret is working at the point where heads would roll, quite literally, through the machinery - with the bodies flaying above the production line - blood everywhere.

[@Itsaliyahha]

So this is how humbug candies used to be made 😮my fav😋 💕

[@pata299]

Thanks to this for my new habit of enjoying Humbugs!

[@Kevin-go2dw]

I operated very similar equipment to this in the 1980's. The factory was in Prahran, Melbourne, Australia.

[@jeffc8242]

Oh Margaret, behave😘👗👠

[@cynthiatolman326]

Betcha Margaret doesn't wear her high heels everyday, lol.

[@philj5507]

Good day.....The Netflex series "Bodies" brings me here.

[@centralonenetwork]

How its made 1960s edition

[@user-mn6li2yv4d]

You can lose a finger or two while working there

[@ytgameon1572]

Wew. This is awsome

[@philmuskett265]

Bah humbug!!! Love 'em.

[@scotthayes4135]

"Bah Humbugs". Wish I had some of those.

[@princesshannahbanana2090]

0:55 looks like a giant piece of bacon

[@aliensexist6634]

wearing gloves on an open machine with rotating parts. oooh boy

[@12time12]

I’ve always wanted a mechanically seperated finger with my humbugs, bet that’s a really good long chew. And it came with a diamond ring! The inscription is….. Margaret???

[@oiytd5wugho]

the sugar would burn your skin off without gloves (I'm exaggerating, 2nd degree burns) and you can't wait for it to cool or it won't pull on the roller

[@user-el9wv6rd9p]

好想吃

[@eviethekiwi7178]

3.5 million views and i’m the 8th comment, what’s going on here..

[@alvexok5523]

Because most who watched this video said "Bah humbug"

[@prun8893]

Margaret makin' candies while wearing pumps. Where have all these women gone?

[@JohnyG29]

Sweets*

[@prun8893]

@@JohnyG29 Aluminum*

[@user-fo6oz1tn6o]

Зачем ей шапочка?Все волосы все равно наружу!

[@sunnyDay18]

What does 'Aj' mean??

[@101Volts]

You refer to the first 3 "comments," then? Well, "Aj" probably means nothing, in this case. Comments are sometimes nonsense.

[@chunchunmaru0603]

4 comments only WTH

[@101Volts]

I wouldn't count the first 3, since all 3 of them only say "Aj" and nothing else.

[@googleuser7454]

Strangely alot of British Pathe videos have a ton of views but few comments.

[@101Volts]

@@googleuser7454 Perhaps they had comments turned off of many of these for some time, and only opened comments more recently.

[@googleuser7454]

@Austin Lucas makes sense.

[@iamadit8863]

Ten comment

[@wowwow3576]

Ja

[@tehjamerz]

1:48

[@ashmitshrivastava7759]

Aj

[@LJefferihno]

Bbq bacon burger

[@Joe-hu7lx]

Notice the music change from euro classical to black man jazz fitting the degeneracy of the 60s that gave us 2020 America

[@stolichnaya_]

what

[@russkiydzhigit]

Omg he said mens job!! We need to find this man and hold protest

[@mikeamico6763]

This is taffy

[@mg725]

No it's not, they're pretty different. Taffy is soft because it includes butter or oil but humbugs are hard because they do not.

[@alvexok5523]

And you're daffy. Lol. This is not taffy (daffy was a word more commonly said back then)

[@mikeamico6763]

@@alvexok5523 I was being sarcastic not daffy

[@KristyManson-rx7jw]

So .... in a Christmas Carol, when scrooge says, bah! humbug!, did he mean candies? So was the candy around back in 1800's in England?