Science in Action. Coffee - An 'Exotick' Drink. [1951]
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records
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content: Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated Records / Series 13: Audiovisual Materials / 13.1: Moving Images / 13.1.2: Television Programs
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content: 1951
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content: Reel OF 395.4
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000017384]
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content: Episodes from the Science in Action were created by the California Academy of Sciences, sponsored by the American Trust Company, produced and broadcast, apparently on Thursday nights, at KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco (Channel 7).  The host/narrator is Tom Grudy. Coffee - An Exotick Drink explores the history of coffee charting its beginnings as a drink, the processes of coffee production, coffee drinking around the world, and rules for making a "good" cup of coffee.  Fairly early television style shot with one camera primarily showing the host/narrator as he sits behind a desk.  Limited use of visuals includes a Hills Bros. employee discussing a coffee plant.  Memorable line:  "Medicine discovered caffeine, a beneficial drug in the coffee bean.