This documentary shows the work that goes into making a new malt factory for Muntons. A team of builders shows through four months the advancement of the plot from its plans to the final completion. In the late 1950s malting facilities were expanded and moved closer to the Scottish whisky distillers. The site chosen was at Bridlington, East Yorkshire and in 1964 the 45,000 tonnes Flamborough Maltings opened. Title – The Shepherd Building Group presents FOUR SEASONS. Two glasses are filled...

This documentary shows the work that goes into making a new malt factory for Muntons. A team of builders shows through four months the advancement of the plot from its plans to the final completion. In the late 1950s malting facilities were expanded and moved closer to the Scottish whisky distillers. The site chosen was at Bridlington, East Yorkshire and in 1964 the 45,000 tonnes Flamborough Maltings opened. Title – The Shepherd Building Group presents FOUR SEASONS. Two glasses are filled with malt and knocked together, before a painting of the final product plan for a new Flamborough Maltings factory is seen. Black and white building plans are seen before images of cliffs with the sea glittering from the sun. A lighthouse is also briefly seen in the fields above the beach, before more footage of the coast. The field where they are to build the factory is brown and bare, with sticks blowing in the wind. Ice and snow cover the field when the builders begin work. Diggers pick up dirt, and a man drives through a puddle while a building frame is seen. Two men climb a ladder while three help a crane lower a piece of steel next to another and pull it away on the top of a wagon. Builders work and chat on or beside a spread-out wooden frame, before cement mixers fill faded red containers labelled Dumpcret that they shovel. Title – 7th April A farmer pours seeds into a red seed drill that has 899 BBT on the front. He then sits on the back and watches the seeds deposited into the soil. A billboard sign informs passers-by of the new factory, including who the owners and builders of the site are. Many companies are displayed in white front on a dark blue background. There is a Shepherd porta-cabin building that two men (Albert Taylor of Shepherd's and Fred Pinder of Clarke, Nichols and Marcel's consultant engineers) walk into. A third man (Derek Blagden of Shepherd's) adjusts a piece of equipment, while the quantity and planning surveyors (Jeff Reed and Richard Simpson) measure with tape beside wooden stakes in the ground. A man driving a truck looks over at some brickwork. A man carries a shovel of concrete he throws onto the ground, while below him in a hole two men wearing caps look over plans. A large yellow digger with Sayers Contracts on carries a large bin full of dirt. Large clocks of concrete stand in a row, tied with plastic sheets over them and covered with a thin frame. The road into the site has been completed, with two workers smoothing out the last of the concrete. Large pipes are passed down to a man stood in the underground foundations, a wood frame surrounds him. A yellow and red crane is near the edge of a cliff, a man stands with a flap cap on and one hand on his hip. The crane's claw goes over the cliff, directed by the man who is looking down checking everything is safe. Another crane on the beach carries a long piece of steel, with a man walking beside. Three men look over plans before steel and concrete columns are put into place. One man does a thumbs up to camera. Another building is nearly finished, with the wooden frames done and half of the wall up. Title – 4th May Barley shoots begin to appear in the field and cover the brown with fresh green. The wood structure is nearly completed. There is another meeting where diagrams are displayed, and steel frames are shown with one man stood on them throwing down a rope. The steel frame of a building is up, and the concrete floor has also been done. A yellow piece of machinery labelled Hoveringham deposits stones and rocks onto a pile, before a yellow truck from Earles Cement with bulk delivery wrote on the side goes past. More concrete is poured, and pre-fab pieces are lowered into place via a crane. One man holds some rope while others stand up on the building to help the crane and make sure the pieces are slotted in correctly. Bricks are laid down by workers in the traditional fashion after marking the places with chalk. More bricklayers are seen under one of the half-completed buildings, stacking bricks on top of the each other. One man wears a flat cap and does his work smiling. Large containers for the barley have already been put into place, which a worker checks. The full work site is now seen, with different contractors in suits pointing to certain parts. Employers look over the machinery some companies have already bought. More progress has been made on one of the buildings. Title – 6th July A field of full-grown barley is seen waving in the wind, with the farmer in a hat and suit stood examining it. He picks one piece and looks at it closely, before across the fields we see the building site looking near completed. More shots of the buildings are seen, with the ones needing to be finished first getting the final touches. Workers paint the steel blue and attach plastic pipes together. A yellow and red roller coaster filled with screaming children is shown. Title – 26th August A girl in a blue swimming costume walks along the beach stepping in and out of the waves. A group of boys throw rocks into the sea which is choppy and grey. The farmer harvests the barley with a red combine harvester. The grain is collected into a green lorry and taken into the parts of the nearby factory that have been finished in time. A red Avery machine is seen in an office, which a man with glasses inspects. Lorries back into the building and sacks are tossed down from the back, filled with barley. The completed buildings are shown as the boiler is carefully put into place. A storage tank also briefly appears. The steel building is nearly finished, and new pre-fab offices have been created. There is a shot of the new buildings from further away, near trees and a pond to show how it fits into the landscape. Title – 11th December Smoke rises from the factory. It has been completed, and machines and lorries carrying sacks of barley now drive out. A car drives down one of the roads, while shots of the men walking into the completed buildings show off the work done. A train goes past, and some of the passengers turn to look at the new site. There is footage from the beginning of the build where the ground was covered in snow; this is contrasted to new footage of the now completed factory. END CREDITS over a sky background: THE END Shepherd Editor Sheila Willson Cameramen Bill Pollard J. Ambor, Alfie Hicks, R Hunter PRODUCED BY CYRIL RANDELL FILM PRODUCERS GUILD LONDON