Ever Since Eden (1942)

[Music] la [Music] [Music] halto where are you going F capan Cortez I take it no no give me no one enters no no a capan I give it to no one but a Capitan let him in set it there God bring me my my in C time oh so [Music] sorry Master you are betrayed what the soldiers are deserting you they are going to seize the ships and sail back to Cuba Nick what is this you have brought tomorrow the atics grow them among the [Music] me juicy and has a right agreeable taste are my captains in this too see when do they think they will take the ships tomorrow morning then we must act tonight are there any we can trust I have three brothers we would all die for you esclavo here then is what you must do you will go to your brothers have them join you at the beach [Music] my captains word has come to me that some among you are disinclined aching to quit before you start well Rodrigo go our captain NOS well numbered one against 10,000 we not afraid to die but these cannibals Only Yesterday they bound the native girl to The Altar and they stripped their skin off alive piece by piece the walls of the temple are human skulls 100,000 of them go on go on our food is low the Indians have poisoned the Springs of the Lagoon n for the taking maze quail and this juicy Tom modle to help stay our thirst but we can't stay here forever we'll die like flies well spoken Rodrigo we stay no longer you mean we go back to Cuba I mean tomorrow I march on monuma those who wish may follow the rest are free to do as they please you will let them take ships as many as they [Music] want what was that like he's coming from the [Music] beach for the the ships the ships they all fire everyone see seor capan everyone to B I think maybe I have companied to monuma after [Music] all you did a noble job of clavo that was a beautiful fire graci as Master you know something eslavo we must surely take the seeds of this the model back with us to Spain when we return see see if we return no esav when we [Music] return [Music] M Jefferson to pay his respects who Mr Thomas Jefferson the new Minister from America Oh yes most certainly M enter please M Mar welcome my friend welcome oh your arm oh merely a sprain oh please sit down thank you tell me how is General Washington busy as a beaver with plans for the Constitutional Convention that is why they need Benjamin Franklin we are sorry to lose Mr Franklin but glad you replace him I succeed Mr Franklin no one can replace him but I came to ask directions to T in to in uh Italy yes uh my doctor suggests a brief vacation while my arm heals and I thought it a good time to review farming conditions there farming you yes I guess I'm still a farmer at heart you should see my farm in Montello now but it is the future of America of which I am thinking and I owe it to my fellow Farmers to take them back all the information that I can and I hear such glowing accounts of the tomatoes in tyin and the pedmont rice Tomatoes oh I I believe you call them love apples oh those export of a single for a few grains of rice well that's Restraint of free trade tell that to them inin I [Music] will [Music] but that is Restraint of free trade see but what would you it is the law but if one could take out just a little bit at a border they search you and if you are a cut smuggling out ever so little up comes your head are you sure maybe you're lucky in the shooting now you had better content yourself with love apples they help you to make love they excite the grand passion what good is love if your dead yes I see I won't take the one without the other [Music] well maybe I could take two small through the and my donkey for agreed in advance oh certainly there you won't fail me now I'm honest hey [Music] look just one minute my little pig please I'm honest m and I can prove it the Foreigner he tried to bribe me with two to smoke R through the mountains so and I refuse course give me the two what the two but I only took it to teach him a lesson I swear now beun or I'll teach you a lesson [Music] [Music] please my [Music] [Music] arm [Laughter] I told you the trip would be fruitless but it wasn't I found a new species of tomato of which the Italians make a electable paste and their rice is just what we need for the Carolinas yes yes too bad you couldn't get any of it out of the country but I did what I thought you said they search you with special care they did everywhere but in the bandage of my sprained arm which is long since well look N9 10 11 12 there you are Jonathan a round dozen of each thank you Tom sorry I couldn't bring more but we'll make them go as far as they will 12 rice seeds and 12 tomato seeds to each of you as long as they last what the tarnation use is these Tomatoes ah good use Jonathan where the old Aztecs ate them for centuries and the Italians eating them now and there are Folks up in Salem and down in New Orleans eating them we eat them at Montello and I'll wager that after you've raised them your folks will be eating them too uh 9 10 11 12 thank you Tom you're welcome G all I ask is that all you Farmers give them your best care rice can be one of our greatest food crops in the southern states but Tomatoes may come to be grown in all our [Music] states stay out of there PA you expecting trashers Matilda Fourth of July picnic yes going to all this trouble for a farm here oh now when you could have had that nice city seller from Columbus what that dude Alec Livingston's all right old man Grim says he's the best hand ever had he says he's got a regular knack for growing things like love apples I suppose Tomatoes M Alex says when people get over their Looney superstitions everybody will raisin need just like potato he's the one that's Looney I don't know M more and more people are eating them every day to hear him tell it don't he ever talk about anything else who there he is now where's the picnic at Buck oo if you ever get there wouldn't surprise me if you spend the day in a tomato patch [Music] oh hot isn't it yes it is but it's a beautiful day whoever said it always rains in the 4th of Ju I Wish It Would Rain pretty soon well I'm trying out a a new kind of tomato it ought to have more moisture want to stop by and see him a minute oh I'd love to get [Music] out it's been a wonderful day Matilda glorious the lunch was good too glad you like it oh I I hope you didn't spoil your dress oh it'll quean many girls had give up a picnic to carry water like you did didn't I suggest it I bet your mother will sure be surprised you spending your whole fourth of July in a tomato patch not very what I mean oh I don't care I I loved helping you I love to watch you with your CL you seem so so inspired you make raising Tomatoes seem so so important it is important giving people better food is about the most important thing there is listen Matilda I've got a chance to rent the old Clark Place 113 Acres I could raise enough other stuff to live on and and plant the rest in tomatoes developing bigger and better ones than there ever was before and time sell the SE well I I mean I could if if you'd help me if would you marry me Matilda would you didn't I say I'd love to help you [Music] yay they look awfully nice wa till you see them next year we'll pick just the best ones for seed and the next year just the best of them and pretty soon we'll have them all big and round and smooth without these creases you're a remarkable man Alex a how long will it take a few years not many you'll [Music] see no use fooling ourselves any longer I'm a failure no you're not there been 15 years but some of them look better than ever don't you think only a few and I was so sure 15 years ago every year we took only the best fruit for seed but every year they came up the same some good some bad most of them just midling same plants some little scrawny ones and a few extra strong healthy ones like this one here that is a nice one if we could only say say maybe that's it what's it we've been selecting the best fruit regardless of of the plant it grew on the seed reproduced all the old plants characteristics bad as well as good if we started taking only the best plants and use the best fruit off of them Matilda I believe my soul we've got [Music] it yes gentlemen this is the third year of the new experiment and I know now it's going to be a success fine glass good we'll put the seeds on the market right away oh no not yet why not well I I want a few more years to make absolutely sure you've already been ated for 18 years yes I'll be added 18 years more if it takes that long I'll let you know when the seeds are [Music] ready use only the ripest ones son they make the best seat there now I think that's enough Pope spread it out to dry all right holl when it's done yep well gentlemen I've called you here today to tell you that at last we're ready you you mean we can put the seeds on the market yep the good characteristics are all set now man do you realize what this means up until now there hasn't been a single acre of tomatoes in the whole United States that would produce one bushel of good ones this Paragon tomato will it'll produce uniformally good fruit on every plant who that's fine aw you know all these years I thought I'd be tickled to death when this job was finished but now dog G it if I ain't a little bit sorry it's over it's not over aw what I thought this tomato business was a fad but it's not more and more people are planting them all the time now they'd like an earlier tomato and what's more some of the big food preservers have taken it up like HJ hin over in Pittsburgh they want fewer seeds fine fine you mean you'll undertake these further varieties I certainly will you have any idea how long that will take hey Pop give me another 10 years and I'll produce a tomato that'll tickle even HJ hind himself Mrs Livingston your husband is a remarkable man I could have told you that years [Music] ago [Music] pectin .25 acid .31 and sugar 2.58 that's F everyone I know it doesn't seem possible after all these months and years but at last really finished the chemical analysis of varieties of tomatoes from all over the world that's what Mr Hines asked for you've been working pretty hard doctor especially these last few days you ought to get some rest as soon as I see the director after that I'm going to bed and sleep for a week so now we know it is possible to control the desirable car of a tomato yes sir Livingston had to depend on trial and error but that was before mle the Austrian monk discovered the mandelian law of plant genetics now we know we can breed in or out any plant character we choose and you really think a tomato can be developed with all these good qualities all in one I'm sure of it very well then get a copy of this off to our experimental farm right away and let them start cross-pollinating it won't happen overnight sir but I promise you 5 years from now Hines farmers will be growing regularly Tomatoes The like of which the world hasn't even dreamed of up to now well go to a doctor and by the way congratulations you've proven the value of chemistry in developing a better tomato thank [Music] you before we enter into this contract with you Mr Cory I want to tell you a little about what it means to grow tomatoes for hindes I know a little about it Mr Barnes I'm new in this section but erlin Gilder he's raised for you for years told me something about it my Farm's the first one east of his oh yes I know the place we'll test your soil I think you're South 40 could be put in shape very easily with 42412 fertilizer I'll do whatever you say we feel that you will follow instructions all the more carefully if you understand fully what's back of it to the Hines company the growing and preparation of food is a sacred trust yes sir we furnish the tomato plants because we grow a particular type one that is best suited to our product and at the same time one that is most profitable to the grower I see years ago one of the many scientists of our Quality Control Department began to analyze Tomatoes all over the world and select the best types which were then developed by one of our own scientist who is known as one of the world's foremost tomato culturists it's done through cross-pollination Nar own green houses he selects his plants for instance it might be a San Marano imported from Italy with low acidity and high sugar content with sterilized shears he cuts away the cluster of anthers in the blossom leading the naked pistol through the magnifying lens we see the tiny Bud of the new tomato at its base he then moves to the other plant selected it may be the mar Globe developed by Pritchard out of Livingston's famous Globe tomato fine fruit with vigorous foliage this time he collects from a protected Blossom a tiny quantity of pollen dust upon the tip of a brush he transfers the pollen to the pistol of the first plant gently brushing it on the moist stigma end a small perforated glassine envelope is slipped over it and clipped there so nothing can contaminate it when fertilization is complete the envelope is removed if it were possible for you to watch the Tomato grow before your eyes if you could somehow condense days of growing into fractions of seconds you would find by force growing the tiny Bud expanding and developing into ripe red luscious fruit containing all the characteristics the scientists wished it to have characteristics that make the Tomato one of the most nutritious of fruits at the peak of Perfection it is removed from the plant its seeds carefully extracted washed and treated then replanted and the whole routine gone through again year after year even under ideal growing conditions it takes eight years or more before we will conc that the seeds are ready for use and start the seedlings which are to be entrusted to you the seed beds are made ready with soil that has been completely sterilized around the middle of March train Swift fingers sew the seed when the seedlings are about 2 in high they are transferred to Flats to be thinned out and transplanted by our girls then we take those flats and place them in Long underground glass covered coal frames where they attain a sturdy height of 8 to 10 in that brings us up to the middle of May when the first of our young pedigreed plants are ready to be distributed to our contract farmers of course the routine is staggered so that we can distribute plants for a month or more which will give you time to get your F ready no wonder you folks are so particular about who handles your plans you bet we're particular and another thing you agreed to deliver Tomatoes at a specified time and I mean the precise hour of a given day I'll give you the exact schedule as the harvest season comes around I understand all right Mr Cory I'm going to sign this contract with you a thanks Mr Barnes you can count on me I'm sure of it and in no time at all you'll be out there putting in your own plan [Applause] y thought maybe you'd like some cold tomato juice thanks honey enough there for the boys too oh plenty how you getting along wonderful the ground's in great shape and the plants are perfect you know if we can have a good crap this year Hines will take us on steady that'll give us a cash crop every year at a guaranteed price it'll be all right it's got to be thanks honey I sent the boys over well so long Eddie come [Applause] [Music] on who is that the hind man huh checking the crap what did you say everything swell [Music] [Music] swell what's the matter the tomatoes what's the matter with them two weeks ago when Barnes was here they were all right now they've got black spots on the leaves if we lose that crap now why don't you pH the hind man yes I'm going to all right Eddie keep your shirt on I'll be right out leaf spot comes in warm damp weather like mil do on your wife's roses sometimes is it bad yes some it kills the leaf that feeds the fruit but you've caught it in time if you dust the whole field right away well how am I going to dust 40 acres right away well there is one way well that's got it is it all right now yeah everything's going to be okay we caught it just in time oh Eddie I'm so thankful maybe you think I'm not oh say Eddie Mrs Van Gilder was telling me this morning she works at the local hind plant during canning season she does MHM lots of the women do look forward to it every year gives them extra money the hind people like it because they're all accustomed preparing food in their homes sounds all right I was thinking uh I'd kind of like to huh it's only six weeks out of the Year Mrs Van says she thinks she can get me on in place of Mrs Hogan dubler who moved away you think you really want to well then we can buy the furniture for the spare room I think it'd be fun okay looks to me like we're getting to be a regular partner of [Music] H [Music] you [Music] seems like they're always washing this place they scrub it from stem to stern every day the government inspectors are taking their places on the platform that means the PLU will soon be rolling up we better get started this is a busy day for us Edd's crops do today at the plant at 2:00 [Music] I hello Eddie right on the dock we'll be ready for you in a moment oh pretty busy that's right that's why we have the tomatoes delivered on schedule this way neither the farmers nor the tomatoes have to stand around for hours par boiling in the [Music] Sun if you had time to follow these Tomatoes you'd see them dry SED then dumped into the first washer rolling over and over under a water spray of 300 lb pressure into the soaking tank then under another spray for the third washing next onto a moving belt where girls on the either side pear and trim as necessary this is the last time the tomatoes are touched by human hands after this they go through their fourth washing then to the scoler and pping machine machine to remove pulp seeds and skin after which they are pumped through glass lined pipes to the kitchens for cooking from here they are piped to the bottling room the bottles come out of the sterilizer Glide along the conveyor to the filler then on to the Capper from here they move through the cooler to the labeling section and there you are this morning those ripe red blushious tomatoes were growing in your field this afternoon their Hines ketchup or chili sauce or hin soup or tomato juice as the case may be wow talk about fres that's the idea now let's have a look at your Tomatoes H I just got home myself how was everything here Mrs Edson Corey is the check for the tomatoes oh and here is the contract for next year oh honey we're on our our way isn't it wonderful yes it is kind of wonderful us being a grower putting things in the ground watching them grow working for a company like hin makes you sort of feel as if you were part of something something big something that's been going on for a long time ever since Eden I guess giving the world better food making it more fun to be alive h