Art Of Smelling (1959)

Whitbread Co. works in London. C, U of a man filing a piece of metal which is balanced on the rim of a large barrel. Narrator states that it is nice to know that there are some jobs that no machine could ever do. John Porter is a smeller. Various shots of John and his colleagues who work at a brewery checking returned beer barrels. They put their nose right in and have a good sniff. If they smell OK they are passed for further use but if they are what is commonly known as stinkers they are sent to the Cooper s shop, opened and scraped clean. We see John using a special heated two prong fork which is used to remove any shires or bits of bung to you A stencil and paint are used to number the checked barrels. Narrator observes that lesser men than these might quake in their shoes at the thought of a job like this, for it s said that nothing smells worse than a The job has to be done though as a bad barrel will ruin the next lot of beer. The palates of the British publi