| Harvesting Watermelons, Cherries, Lettuce, Celery, late 1940s | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tape Master: | 1800 | |
| Catalog #: | 501434 | |
| Clip Number: | 501434-2 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-DFS-16-085 | |
| Timecode: | 02:15:52 - 02:20:35 | |
| Location: | California, United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1946 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Harvest LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, California | |
| Description: | Harvesting watermelons. TLS Hispanic & African-American men picking watermelons, throwing them onto moving stake bed truck. TLS Hispanic man operating tractor pulling cart loaded with watermelons. TLS black & Latino men loaded watermelons onto truck. MSs watermelons being stacked on bed of hay in truck. Great panning MSs Hispanic migrant workers tossing watermelons from worker to worker, ending up on truck. Hot, sweaty labor. Panning TLS Latino migrant workers walking through massive watermelon patch, looking for ripe melons. MSs black & Latino men picking watermelons, tossing them from man to man & then loading them onto truck driving through field. TLS oil company crane, tilt down to MS green, non-ripened watermelons in patch... ooo, a political statement; MS oil workers laboring in field. MSs white male workers, some wearing blue jean overalls, loading watermelons onto truck. MS stack of watermelons. MS green melons in field, tilt up to TLS workers tossing melons to man standing in bed of old Ford truck driving through melon patch. Panning MS white men loading large melons onto truck rolling thru field. TLS melons being unloaded from old green pickup truck & onto commercial grade delivery truck. Nice TLS white man in jean overalls, straw hat, loading melons onto bed of green pickup parked in field. MSs stack of harvested watermelons. MSs white men unloading watermelons. (LB-26) | |
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