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1) General Description: edited video is filmed at Chye Kee Bean Curd Company and features an interview with its owner.
2) Content Description:
Begins at 00:01:00
General shots of interior of premises; a table like top with several metal trays, arranged in four rows, filled with bean curd; male worker bending over one tray picks up quickly a sheet of bean curd skin with a chopstick-like stick and hangs it over the metal pole above the tray; pole has several sheets of skins; worker moves to next tray to continue this task; worker moves over to other side which has several tables arranged in rows and all with metal trays of bean curd and metal poles with sheets of skin above the trays.
Close up of beans in a huge metal container; in the background are owner and interviewer; close ups of equipement; a hand holding some beans.
Full view of owner, interview with him begins in Mandarin; questions put to him include: his age, how long he is at this job; his work previously; reason for taking up this job; reason his father starting this business; difference between this job and other work; business make profits; number of bean curd makers.
Close Shot of name signboard in Chinese and English;
Interview continues with: plans to expand business; problems faced; types of bean curd skins and usage; who buy the skin from him; does he give to supermarkets.
Filming moves down the premise, can hear the owner's voice but he is out of view - explains about beans in big metal container, grinding beans, filtering machine, boiling, pouring in rectangle trays; several other equipment - pumps, steam boiler, pumps into trays, gas heater.
Interview continues with owner answering about uses of gas heater, workers, delivery of the skins, call for orders, water and PUB gas, doing other jobs in addition to this business, parents not objecting, this business is hard work. As interview continues owner and interviewer are at the entrance.
Footnotes - 12.31-12.37 shot on interviewer, but no audio; 15.44 - interview stops; 15.59 camera on owner talking without mike, with audio again at 16.02; 15.45-15.58 camera is on interviewer just standing, not moving.