The Hole In The Macaroni Aka The Manufacturing Of Vermicelli And Macaroni (1957)

St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Low angle shot of strings of pasta dough being squeezed through a machine to create spaghetti. The narrator compares the process to “the Indian rope trick by automation“. M/S of a factory floor. A man and a woman are hanging strings of spaghetti over racks to dry, in the background is the squeezing machine. Low angle shot of dough being forced through the machine. Low angle shot of the man arranging the spaghetti to dry on a rack. M/S of the man and the woman arranging drying spaghetti. C/U of the spaghetti coming out of the machine. The man grabs a bunch and uses a knife to chop a length off and takes it to be dried. C/U of three metal dies on a table. A man’s hands picks up one of the dies. The man holds the die in front of his face - it is circular with rows of small holes. He flips it over to examine it, revealing that the holes are a different size on the other side. C/U of the die being placed into the macaroni machine - “this is the process that puts the hol