Summary

TAPE: EF01/0607 IN_TIME: 23:12:24 DURATION: 1:24 SOURCES: TVE RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Bunol - 22 August 2001 SHOTLIST: 1 Zoom in to packed street 2 Various of crowds and people spraying water hoses from a truck 3 Truck driving slowly through street with people throwing tomatoes from it 4 People on a pile of tomato puree 5 Various mid shots of street fighting 6 Various of truck dumping tomatoes and people pelting each other 7 Various of tomato fights 8 People throwing tomatoes from truck 9 Various of tomato fighting in street 10 Truck loaded with revellers 11 Various of tomato throwing STORYLINE: Tens of thousands of revellers are seeing red in Spain after being pelted with overripe fruit An estimated 30-thousand party-goers - fuelled by wine and beer - hurled handfuls of juicy tomatoes as part of the annual La Tomatina fiesta One hundred and thirty tons of plum tomatoes were trucked into the town of Bunol, and dumped on the streets to provide the ammunition for the world's largest food fight The pulped fruit ran like rivers of blood down the streets as combatants, threw, squashed and rolled in the red stuff The fiesta in Bunol, near to Valencia on the east coast, has become one of the country's most popular summer festivals It also draws huge numbers of visitors from abroad Local folklore says the festival - held at the end of August - started in the 1940s when kids started throwing their lunch at each other one day in a downtown square The tradition was born after people met in the same place the following year and pelted passers-by Water cannons mounted on trucks are used to give the revellers a good wash before they retire from battle