Operation Pea Harvest

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

727

Date Released

28 Nov 1968

Date recorded

31 Oct 1968

Length of issue (in feet)

675

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Operation Pea Harvest
2. 2Salad Beauty Treatment

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

Pathe synopsis: Picking peas isn’t usually the sort of performance you associate with a gruelling 24-hours a day military-precision type operation. But when the peas are to be used for quick freezing the whole process becomes a race against time. The pea crop is ripe for the picking for only about seven weeks, so harvesting is a day-in night-out operation. Much of the crop is mechanically shelled in the field and the processing time-target is 90-minutes from field to packing. The twentieth century ice-age is booming and in a Grimsby frozen food factory the peas are first tested for tenderness on a Tenderometer before they’re given the go-ahead. Then a whole series of washing and checking processes are swiftly carried out before the peas are blast-frozen on a cushion of arctic air.

Keywords

Agriculture; Science and technology; Forestry; Fisheries; Animal husbandry

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

373

Story extras:

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