“ CHOCOLATE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD ” 1960s HERSHEY CO. FACTORY TOUR PENNSYLVANIA XD44624

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1960s color film depicts a tour of the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Hershey, Pennsylvania, featuring a sanitized and some might say shameless history of the chocolate trade, including harvesting of bean pods with child labor. The film also includes an overview of modern industrial confectionery production methods, Milton S. Hershey homestead, the Hershey Museum, and Hersheypark amusement park attractions and stadium (TRT 25:54). Children board a Greyhound bus bound for Hershey, PA. One boy wears a charro outfit and sombrero (0:07). Opening titles. Also on the bus: A black boy wearing a kufi and kente cloth; a girl in a huipil dress; a boy in a ranchero hat, carrying a whip; a boy in a straw hat, carrying a banana (0:27). Topiary letters on the front lawn of the Hershey factory spell, “Hershey Cocoa.” Aerial photography shows personalized smokestacks. The bus,