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Golden Harvest...Fifty Years of Calpak Progress

1950/18 min 3 sec/74 shots

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This 1950 California Packing Corporation film chronicles 50 years of the company’s role in California’s canning industry, featuring historical footage of agribusiness, cannery operations, and workers dating to the turn of the century. Directed by Dave Butler and written by Phil Smith, it incorporates the sponsor’s 1933 film Out of the Spirit of ’49.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: California Packing Corporation, Industrial and Public Relations Department
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: Golden Harvest...Fifty Years of Calpak Progress
Date: 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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