Fruit-Picking Without Tears

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1153

Date Released

9 Jul 1951

Date submitted

3 Jul 1951

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Towards Peace in Korea
2. 2London Honours Memory of American Dead
3. 3Hague Court Gives Interim Decision
4. 4Royal Visit to Royal Show
5. 5Fruit-Picking Without Tears
6. 6New Men’s Singles Champion at Wimbledon

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Orchard Monkey. DESCRIPTION: At a fruit farm near Hamburg, they’ve been using a new American machine called an Orchard Monkey, a hydraulic ladder to make fruit-picking easier. SHOTLIST: Shots of machine with hydraulic arms, pickers on same & are lifted to the height of the fruit trees. CU machinery working the hydraulic arms. MS men picking cherries. MS & CU cherries being placed in baskets. MS arms working.

Keywords

Agriculture; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

Germany; Hamburg

Footage sources

Germany

Card file number

55725

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

50

Story extras:

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