Gifts of the Sun

Gifts of the Sun is a short film from ca. 1946 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Beautiful Kodachrome film showing how California dried fruit is grown, harvested, processed, sorted, weighed, and packed. With alluring imagery of apricots, prunes, peaches, and raisins.

Gifts of the Sun
Produced by	Del Monte Food Products
Production company	Del Monte Food Products
Distributed by	Del Monte Food Products
Release date	ca. 1946
Running time	17:52
Language	English

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Beautiful Kodachrome film showing how California dried fruit is grown, harvested, processed, sorted, weighed, and packed. With alluring imagery of apricots, prunes, peaches, and raisins.

Apricots, prunes, peaches and grapes shown on the branch/vine. Men on ladders harvesting fruit. Apricots being pitted and left to dry in the sun. Truck loaded with dried fruit entering packing house. Dried fruit being processed. Shots of hands sorting fruit on conveyor belt. Good shot of women measuring exact weight of prunes. Several shots of packaging by "whirling" machines.

People

Story

Gene Walker

Photography

Dave Butler

Recording

Bill Palmer

See Also

• https://archive.org/details/Giftsoft1946
• Same file hosted on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d49IKFcH4M
• https://archive.org/details/0302_Gifts_of_the_Sun_03_00_39_00