Pippin Packin’ - 1965 | The Archivist Presents | #309

The apple trees in my communal garden are dripping with fruit this year, I have never seen so many apples on those trees. What can I make with them all?! I love this industrial film about apple packing in the 1960s, I hope that you enjoy it too. In Kent a scheme has been introduced by the farmers through which all the apples produced by over sixty growers pass through one central packing station. As well as apples, the plant handles pears, tomatoes, and oranges are among the imported fruit. MS apples being picked. MS ditto. MS apples being transferred from basket to box. MS boxes being piled onto a tractor. MS tractor going down track through orchard. CU apples being picked. MS tractor going down track. Pan lorry arriving at packing plant loaded with apples. MS lorry driving into first testing shed. CU apples in a box. MCU man grading apples for size. MS apples going along a conveyor belt in boxes. Pan ditto. CU woman sorter. CU woman sorting apples. CU apples being placed on different conveyors. MS apple