This DVD compilation features films all about the enjoyment of fruit. It follows the complete process of fruit production from growing to treating to picking to the best part…eating! TABLE OF CONTENTS: (1) Romance of a Lemon (1927) – This is a quaint silent film shot in the San Gabriel Valley that focuses on everything about lemons, from growing them to eating them to loving them! – 9 Minutes (2) About Bananas (1935) – An amazing silent film that follows the production of bananas from clearing fields to getting them into grocery store customer hands – 11 Minutes (3) Journey to Banana Land (1950) – A glamorized look at South Americas banana growing countries filled with colonial overtones. It stresses the importance of banana farming to local economies. The film has some great scenes of people eating bananas and just loving it – 21 Minutes (4) Good Wrinkles (1951) – This is a very beautifully animated tour of the Sunsweet prune business in California by a cute and hilarious animated casts of prunes. This is a cant miss! Great info is included in this film about the health effects of prunes too – 21 Minutes
Included Films:
Romance of the Lemon
Romance of the Lemon
Produced: 1927
Length: 10 Minutes
Theres nothing sweeter than the sour of a lemon. Romance of the Lemon, is a silent look into the history of the venerable fruit including its purposes and how it is cultivated. From its early days on board ships to prevent scurvy, it has spread across the United States to become a favorite drink. But, refreshment is not the only thing the film suggests lemons are good for. Some of the suggested uses are soap, cosmetics and antiseptic. This is a wonderfully intriguing look into 1927s San Gabriel Valleys harvesting of the lemon as well as all benefits of the sour citrus fruit.
About Bananas
About Bananas
Produced: 1935
Length: 11 Minutes
Bananas about bananas? “About Bananas” breaks down the banana industry in the 1930s showing everything from deforesting the rain forest to make way for tree farms, to harvesting the fruit, transporting it, and how it ends up in the consumer’s hands. Watching this will have you craving for a banana and perhaps understanding a little better how the flavorful morsel ended up in your hands and what it took to get there.
Journey to Banana Land
Journey to Banana Land
Produced: 1950
Length: 21 Minutes
The economics of bananas has never been so clearly praised and told as in “Journey to Banana Land” Along the way of telling how bananas end up on the tables of many hungry Americans we are treated to a telling and often beautiful story of landscapes, and workers, and how harvesting the bananas ends up in wealth for all. Golden fruit it is called, as vivid landscapes pave the Colombia coast showing everything about the process from transporting, growing, picking, cleaning, and more. Part travelogue part economics lesson bananas have never looked more delicious nor more lucrative.
Good Wrinkles
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.
