California Prunes

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1970

Complete Record: Youngsters (teenagers) sit at picnic bench and eat, zoom in on box of prunes, sky, tree, cut out of California gets filled with prunes, orchard of plum trees, zoom in on plums, harvesting plums with long clippers, plum trees in bloom / flower, rows of trees, tractor, irrigation, farmer, panning shots of plums on trees, hand extracts piece of plum for testing, mechanical device driven by a man shakes tree so that plums fall - shaking branches, plums falling to ground, sorting done by machine, boxes labeled “prunes” being fork lifted, plums in stacked trays put in heating chambers, thermometer shows how hot - 160 degrees, plums, replaced by prunes, spinning prunes, trucks drive prune boxes along highway, into warehouse, prunes sorted by machine in factory, prune juice bottles, canned prunes, , bagged prunes, prune ooze (?), boxed prunes, back to youngsters enjoying their prunes, dancing prune box, prunes in nice dish with other fruit near by, prunes as a tasty desert, boiling prunes on stove top, teenagers walk home from school carrying books, blender and tips on what you can make with prunes, jello mold, pie, cake, danish, ends with smiling young prune eaters.