A Sweet Fragment from the "Dessert" Island

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
486
Date Released
25 Sep 1930
Length of issue (in feet)
894
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Costume Makes the Dance
  2. 2A Sweet Fragment from the "Dessert" Island
  3. 3Moments from Charlot’s Masquerade at the Cambridge Theatre, London.
  4. 4For Windy Days - a Pathécolor Mode
  5. 5"Sea Airy". Filmed at Colwyn Bay.
  6. 6Sail Ho! - Filmed at Burnham-on-Crouch

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 6
Summary
NoS synopsis: "From far-off Tasmania, Australia, where Adam joins in the sweetest job of all - jam making." L/S of men at work pouring large container of jam into a vat. "Eve has the job of tending the big automatic machines, where the jam becomes a canned affair." High angle of woman spreading out hot jam which has been poured into a machine. Cans are seen moving along a conveyor belt through the factory. Various shots of the cans being moved through the system. "Then through the fast-working labelling machines, quicker than any hand." Woman drops cans onto conveyor belt. Shot of the jam being packed into boxes.
Keywords
Food and cooking
Locations
Australia; Tasmania
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.196
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP196
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile   Issue sheet
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
140

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