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Fundamentals of Fish Spoilage
196214 min 40 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Sidney Goldsmith
Production: Sidney GoldsmithFrank Spiller
Script: Wolf Koenig
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Fisheries.
Shows, in greatly magnified close-up, exactly what happens when fish spoil. A high-powered lens and animated drawings are used to illustrate the chemical and biological changes that take place in the tissues of fish when improperly handled or stored. The film illustrates the difference in texture and keeping quality when fish are handled according to tested methods.
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Subject categories
- Food and Food Industries > Fish and ShellfishGrading, Quality Control and Research
- Health and Medicine > Food Issues and NutritionPublic Health and Sanitation
- Fishing and Hunting Industries > Processing IndustriesSafety measures
Credits
- director
- Sidney Goldsmith
- producer
- Sidney Goldsmith
- executive producer
- Frank Spiller
- script
- Wolf Koenig
- photography
- Jean Chouinard
- sound
- George Croll
- animation
- Bernard Longpré