The Free Lunch Of Florida (1922)
Title incorporates a stereotyped image of a black child eating a slice of watermelon. Florida, United States of America. Two men work on a Papaya plantation. They choose ripe fruit and pick them from the trees. M, S and C, U of the fruit. A man off screen turns one of the Papaya to show the audience its shape. Intertitle reads: Incidentally, the Papaya s a bit of a doctor and yields a digestiveaiding drug C, U of the fruit, a man off screen scores the fruit with a sharp knife and the sap bubbles out. C, U of this sap being scraped from the outside of the fruit with a knife. C, U of seeds being scraped out of the fruit with a knife. C, U of a man and a woman standing by a Papaya tree. He hands her a slice of the fruit. She smiles and eats the fruit whilst looking at the camera. Intertitle reads: You ll all know the other free lunch M, S of a palmlike tree. C, U of very large bunch of bananas. C, U of a man snapping off a banana blossom. C, U of the blossom in his hands. He pe
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