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The Screening Room / Machines & Industry

About Bananas

1935 · 11 minutes · Black & white

[FILM: About Bananas, 1935]

The life of a banana, from jungle plantation to American fruit bowl — made by the United Fruit Company, the corporation most associated with the phrase "banana republic". Read between the lines.

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The industrial scale of it: railways, ships and refrigerated holds for one fruit.

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