Junior Social Studies: A Loaf Of Bread 

Our baker didn't have a van, it was a horse and beautifully painted yellow cart. When the baker opened the back the smell from the still hot bread was magic. Very fond memories from Chester Hill/South Granville NSW in the 1950's. Then there was the ice man who also had a horse and cart and in summer he'd chip off a lump of ice for us kids to chew on and cool down.

From watching what the house looked like, the clothes and hats everyone wore, and no plastic in sight just makes my heart sing and sigh.

My mom must have watched this in school. She was 10 when it was filmed and went to Ascham in Sydney. Health and Safety issues were not prominent: children operating farm equipment, workers lungs exposed to that fine wheat dust and hands on in the bakery. Glad we live in 2024 for workers safety

Wooo! New NFSA video just dropped!

I love how each State was basically self sufficient . They grew their own food, made their own cars , clothes , wine and beer 🍻 and then traded with each other. Just sell the wool overseas . This was the lucky country 👍 . What have they done ??

Fantastic video as always!!!!!

Fantastic video mate, as a baker I love anything bread!👍

Big loaves of bread back then compared today's loaves.

I remember my great aunt would make homemade bread. The whole street would smell delicious 😋

Thanks to the wheat farmer for helping me make my sourdough loaves.

By the 2040's, we may be here again.

Good job, don’t forget that before the bread is packed into the plastic bags it’s wrapped in and secured with a small square clip that it’s sliced evenly by either slicing machines or sometimes sliced by hand using a knife.

Successive Australian governments only get to attack (undermine, make unviable) Australian farming, mining, and manufacturing because average Australians have no idea how the food they eat and goods they purchase arrive in their homes. Short movies like this, shown to children in Australians schools, meant we used to take pride in our producers and manufacturers. But, today, people take this all for granted which makes it easy for governments to undermine because voters just assume they always were so always will be.

Amazing industrial baking and distribution at the time and comparing that to the scale of production and baking today. (I dare say a few less bare hands and arms touch the bread nowadays)

Don’t see bread like that anymore. Especially in the stores.

As a kid we had a old bakery across the road you would start smelling baked bread 🍞 about 9 30 at night mum would send me over with a tea towel and 25¢ still warm thick slice with butter 🧈🤤🇦🇺 60s-70s

Back when bread was bread.

Nowadays, they magically appear on the supermarket shelves.

Academy award winning except the narrator isn't an Aussie.

Magic food handling practices.. NOT!

Bread is not food.