Behind the Cup: The Story of Hills Bros. Coffee, 1939.
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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 / 13.1.3: Promotional Materials
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content: 1 Film reel (16mm color composite optical track print , (approx. 1,000 feet))
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content: 1939
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content: Reel OF 395.1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000017269]
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content: Film reels
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content: This film, produced for the 1939 World's Fair, depicts the processes involved with coffee production from growing and harvesting coffee, preparing the beans, shipping, developing blends, to packing and shipping coffee. Specifically, this film shows how Hills Bros. Coffee goes from plant to cup with extensive scenes in the Hills Bros. San Francisco processing plant. It also includes scenes from coffee plantations in El Salvador.

Credits:

Narrator, Carroll Wilson, Hills Bros.

Photographer, Ken Allen

Special Effects, Ray Mercer

Original Score, Aaron Gonzalez

Song "Hot Coffee" by Hustwick and Stauffer

Copyright 1939, Hills Bros. Coffee