The String Bean

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1950

Creator: Pathe Contemporary Films

Complete Record: The camera follows an old woman as she tends to things around her apartment. She then puts on her coat and hat and leaves her dwelling. She locks her apartment door and walks down a spiral staircase. LS of her walking through the park. She finds a nice bench to sit on and watches the sprinklers water the flowers. She walks past a garbage can and finds a little potted plant that someone had left there. She takes it and returns up the staircase to her apartment. She puts the pot down, digs out the dead plant and throws it away. She plants another healthy plant in its place. and sets it in the windowsill before watering it. She takes very good care of her plant over the next few days, placing it in patches of sunlight around her apartment. She returns to the park and sits on a bench. She pulls out the plant from her bag and lets it sit in the sun. The plant still looks droopy so she replants it in the park garden. As expected, it thrives in the garden and she checks on it every so often. Eventually, it begins to produce string beans and she takes a few of them one day. She brings them back to her apartment and replants them in her pot. She places them outside her window as rain pours down. Ahhh.