11221 I really miss this film, I hope it comes back soon! Perfect example of colonialist propaganda from one of the greatest purveyors of imperialism and corporate control, the United Fruit Company. Amazing banana shake footage! Come ride the great white fleet! I miss this film! ron-0 2004-04-05 23:38:05 2004-04-05 23:38:05 5 23089 For those who don't know, the UFC, in association with the CIA, overthrew the Guatemalan government in the 1950s, thus making this pre-overthrow film a bizarre look back on UFC's manifest destiny and how it played out in the coming years. --Taylor UFC: Rotten Fruit. PreliViewerKid86 2004-10-19 00:55:04 2004-10-19 00:54:23 5 Quite an off little movie with beautiful photography and a strange narrator. Like how he pronounces 'Uniforms' as 'Unaforms' and the very curious spelling of Columbia (as Colombia). 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, "We know you like Bananas" is too creepy. Yes, master, we like bananas. No mascot though 4 Spuzz 2005-05-19 09:46:17 2005-05-19 09:46:17 notice all the child labour? and colombia is actually spelt correctly not columbia as it is often mis-spelled. fabulous pictures of lake atitlan in the 1950's. they still use child labour harvesting coffee. on one trip i saw 8 and 10 year old children spraying the coffee plants with pesticide and now only drink organic coffee. of course they had no protective gear and barefeet and legs. i even saw one kid sitting in a puddle of pesticide trying to fix his broken sprayer. was not surprised to see they didn't show other parts of the bananaland city where the slums were. important historical film 4 Marcos X 2005-11-27 13:14:12 2005-11-27 13:14:12 I enjoyed watching this and reading the other very informative reviews here that give some much-needed political background to this film. But politics aside, as a former elementary school teacher, I found myself wondering whom United Fruit's intended audience was for this film. The subject matter and tone suggest to me this could have been intended for use with elementary school children. I say this because part of our California early grades curriculum involves learning about commerce, and how products are brought from farm to table, so to speak. So this film could fit right in with that unit. I can imagine it must have been an important theme even in the 50s. In any event, it really makes one appreciate the humble banana! Children's Educational Film? Lorie E 2007-05-02 04:45:03 2007-05-02 04:45:03 3 The copy he used wasn't as good as ours, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYhzCM_WOXY Paul Reubens used this film Rick Prelinger 2008-01-11 17:04:56 2008-01-11 17:04:56 0 6 4.20