To Market, To Market

About

Film about farmers getting produce and vegetable to market.

01:40:02:09 VS corn stalks, CU corn on stalk; CU crate of white onions; CU crate of sweet potatoes; CU crate of peaches. VS women in field picking tomatoes; CU woman picking tomatoes; man in field picking tomatoes, yellow flowers also in field, CU dirty disembodied hands place tomatoes into bucket full of red tomatoes.

01:41:22:00 VS men lifting crates of tomatoes labeled Kern’s Catsup Los Angeles onto truck; pan over dozens of open crates of red tomatoes stacked tightly together.

01:42:13:02 CU rooster.

01:43:20:21 CU disembodied hand squeezes various tomatoes in crates; VS Mexican peppers, red and green; VS man with knife at market sorts through crate of leafy green vegetable and chops it up.

01:44:02:21 CU scale reads 80 (lbs.), camera pans down to crate of green peas; crate of Brussels sprouts, three large pieces of ice placed on top of bucket. VS in produce and vegetable open air market; men bargain and farmers make sales.

01:46:03:26 CU stack of pumpkins; little boy buys pumpkin; rural African-American boy smiles for camera holding pumpkin over his shoulder.

01:49:32:29 CU man with dolly lifts crate stack of Lompoc, California carrots.

01:49:54:11 VS Pacific Fruit Express refrigerator car; high-angle freight train pulls out of loading station, downtown Los Angeles in background.

01:50:10:08 LS New York harbor and downtown Manhattan skyline of 1950s.

01:50:21:01 Freighter steamship the Luckenbach sails across frame in New York Harbor.

01:50:30:09 Great shot CU American flag blowing in the wind, blue sky behind it.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

Handy (Jam) Organization

Subtitles

Automatic captions

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