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Record information – Brief Better Times Through Tea Times
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1935Item number (ISN):18296Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.Accession:1973-0127Media:FilmOriginal title:Better Times Through Tea TimesPart:2 of 2Production date:1935Production company:Associated Screen News Ltd.Sponsor:Tea Market Expansion BureauDescription:Promotional film designed to help the Canadian tea industry expand. Footage includes a brief description of how tea is grown and processed; shots of women harvesting tea by hand; taking the tea to "mincing lane", where it is tasted and graded by experts; loading large crates of tea onto a ship; shots of Vancouver harbour; assembly line footage of tea being sorted and packaged; a graphic illustration of the room for growth in Canadian consumption of tea (four pounds of tea per capita as compared to ten pounds per capita in Great Britain); unveiling of the 1935 national tea advertising campaign to promote tea in Canada; magazine, radio, newspaper ads; dramatization of a tea salesman going to a store and putting up a sign in the window promoting the sale of quality teas; and a close up of a brochure explaining how to make good tea. <21mn>Language:Silent with English intertitlesOriginal number:A-688-1Detailed holdings information: -
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