Journey to Banana Land (1950)

★★★★ · No mascot though · Spuzz · 2019-10-19

Quite an off little movie with beautiful photography and a strange narrator. Like how he pronounces 'Uniforms' as 'Unaforms' Anyways, we go to 'Banana Land'.. wherever that is. The narrator gives a region of countries that fall into 'Banana Land'. And then we visit the city.. Not identified, just 'The City', and the we go into 'The country' where we see 'The Volcano'. Anyways, we finally go into Banana production, and here, the film gets interesting, as we learn how Bananas are grown, harvested and finally brought to market. End shot of little boy eating along with the final line of dialog…

★★★ · But Can We Put Them in the Refridgerator? · Dodsworth the Cat · 2024-03-13

It may called "Banana Land" (by whom, I don't know) but it takes 8 1/2 minutes into this film before we even see a banana plant. The irony is bananas aren't even native to Banana Land. We get to learn new words like "machete." Mom sure loves those bananas. She uses them in everything she makes for her smiling family (can you buy a glass these days that's the size of the one the kid is drinking his banana-milk from?) This short is well-shot and edited, with narration over silent footage (some stock) and animation. All that's missing is a woman with fruit on her head.