Petaluma Chicken Promotional Film (1932)
1932 · Ephemeral film · 3 min
Synopsis
Early promotional film for Sonoma County poultry industry featuring young women making an extremely large omelet.
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Details
- Running time
- 3 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- San Francisco Bay Area: Sonoma County
- Agriculture: Poultry
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Eggstemely silly! · No School Like The Old School · 2018-07-01
Short film having to do with promoting some sort of poultry industry to Petaluma. It opens with a group of young women carrying large buckets of eggs and presenting them to "Chef San Francisco". The people in this production definitely aren't professional actors but that makes it even more funny. Examples are the first woman who speaks "Chef San Francisco... we present to you....the best eggs..." Then the chef speaks the with just as many pauses "My those are some big....beautiful... white eggs". It's almost as if they forgot their lines, or were reading from cue cards. So the chef decides to…
★★★★★ · EGG PORN!!! · Spuzz · 2005-12-24
Uhhhh, what the hell did I just see? Since I am almost done viewing all there is too see here, I wasnt expecting anything out of the ordinary anymore. Then comes the Petaluma chicken film which just blows me away for being OUT there and being highly strange and makes me feel uncomfortable at the same time. A group of women come up to Chef San Fransisco and present him with eggs! Uh, its strange already. Chef welcomes the girls to SF by saying My, those are wonderful beautiful white eggs! and suggests they make an omelet, while trying unsuccessfully to remember his lines. Next scene, the women…
★★★★ · funny · cashel · 2003-11-29
I enjoyed the simple humour of this 3 minute b/w film..There are no actors,just natural ordinary people having fun. Parodoxically,I find pleasure in the film,s poor technical production
★★★★ · Lay off the Freudian theory, it's just . . . · rebelmacaque · 2007-08-07
. . . Butter & Egg Days! This is clearly an old clip of one of the Butter & Egg Day festivities. You can still attend the festival every Spring and witness the crowning of the Butter & Egg Princess. Hooray for Dairy Royalty! And yes, there was a large Jewish presence in Petaluma in those years. I have had the privilege of talking with some of these now elderly farmers. Quite a fascinating history.
★ · Promo lays an egg. · ERD. · 2007-08-05
This promo was silly. Probably because of age, the film was dark and had many splices
