Food Story Japan 1948 - 1949 - Produce Auction

Food Story Japan 1948 - 1949 - Produce Auction LS & MS Freighter ship at dock seen from water. View of Shimizu & harbor from hill above. 08:29:00 01Sep48 Men weighing bundles of root vegetables; stacks in produce auction warehouse. Baskets of ?? being unloaded & boxes of vegetables & fruit on floor; auction w/ men bidding. Men filling & moving burlap bags of phosphate fertilizer (?). Machine rocking or sifting (dark). 08:30:49 Woman w/ child on back walking past garden plots; city in background. Man hoeing ground, CU. Road past fencd garden, grain growing on small plot. Corn & other plants. CU from moving camera. 08:32:49 Man pulling water bucket out of well w/ long pole on pivot. Trolley an bicyclists pastd. Large truck of goods past garden plots in traffic circle. 08:33:45 01Sep48 Men unloading baskets at produce auction; LS of hall & men moving thru large open-sided building. Auctioneer. Men pulling cars by hand & with bicycles. Post-WWII; Occupied Japan; Occupation; Agriculture; Wholesale food distribution;