Sugar And Starch A Banana Sidelight (1933)

Filmed at Chiswick County School. Schooltime for boys is no longer synonymous with toil. Today the modern boy has change in every way outdoors Various shots of boys doing keep fit exercises in the open air in front of the school. They throw a large ball around. Or in the Lab where microscopes and test tubes cast alluring (and M, S of schoolboys in the school laboratory. A science lesson presumably. Any kind of fruit experiment has tasty possibilities. Today, we take a banana a green one for a C, U of a banana being sliced (with its skin still on). A small piece of the banana is placed inside a slicing machine. A small sliver of banana is cut off and placed in a dish. The sliver is then placed on a piece of glass, ready to go under the microscope. C, U of the slide being placed under the microscope. M, S of boy looking into the microscope. The microscope reveals that a green banana is composed largely of starch (troublesome to most tum