Synopsis
Shows transportation system necessary to move agricultural crops from farm to factory, where they are made into Heinz food products, especially ketchup.
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Details
- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Internet Archive item
- 1092BigDeliveryWagonThe
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Tarragon Vinegar and Quince Jelly · Dodsworth the Cat · 2022-11-30
The uncredited voice of Paul Frees takes us through 19th century times of delivering Heinz food by horse-drawn carriages (animated by Manny Gould), to footage of how ketchup comes from the farm to the factory to the supermarket shelf. And we're treated to boxes upon boxes of Heinz products.Turtle soup! Quince Jelly! There's descriptive rhetoric galore as Frees tells us about Heinz' 57 varieties. Note the "specially trained company representative" whose job is "to keep that stock rotating" (ie. sell as much ketchup as possible). Ed Paul was Fairbanks' composer and puts together a pleasant…
★★★ · See why Americans Are the Best Fed On Earth! · Spuzz · 2022-10-11
In this delirious short, all 57 varieties, it seems, of Heinz is saluted. From the ruby red bottles still familiar to us today of Heinz Ketchup, to vinegar, to it's ugly puke green soup cans, the manufacture and delivery of all kinds of product is shown. Although the film somewhat skimps on EXACTLY what is involved in making, let's say ketchup, everything else is trumped up to ridiculous new heights.
