Vintage Prune Industry Films

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Vintage Prune Industry Films

All About Prunes is a wonderfully rare collection of films about everyones favorite fruit: the prune. (Well, not everyones favorite!) Starting with a terrific animated feature with brilliant color artwork and a comical narration by Sunny Sweet, a fat and gregarious little prune, this film is a cant miss DVD!. A Fortune in Two Trunks traces the roots of the California prune industry – an educational movie jam-packed with great info.

Included Films:

Good Wrinkles

Produced: 1951

Length: 20 Minutes

Good Wrinkles is a cute 1950s cartoon with an adorable lead characters: a prune, Sunny Sweet. Sweet goes to Hollywood to seek his fortune in beautiful 1950s California. The focus of the film is the growing, processing, and health benefits of California prunes. Sunny Sweet beats all the other prune-hopefuls from other states and wins roles as a baseball player, a doctor, an acrobat, and a French Duke. As the Duke, he battles a no-good Pacific Northwest prune, defeating him. Throughout, the film includes lots of information about the prune industry in California, and facts about the nutrition prunes provide, Sunny played many important parts in the movies, just as prunes in real life play an important part in keeping us healthy. Good Wrinkles is a light hearted and enjoyable vintage promotional film.

Fortune in Two Old Trunks

Produced: 1951

Length: 27 Minutes

This film takes an extensive and absorbing look at the history, growth, production, and distribution of California prunes. Starting with the immigration of Frenchman Louis Pellier, who brought the first cuttings of French prune trees to California, the film tells about how the prune industry was launched, using actors with narration instead of dialogue. Included in the film is an overview of growing and harvesting, processing, and packaging, with shots of Sunsweet workers wearing vintage uniforms while working in the plant. The prune growers then demonstrate how to turn the humble prune into many different dishes. Most interestingly prune cake and prune pie! A fun film that captures the history of prunes and California.