Collection search - Coffee - A Growing Industry in Trinidad
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Record information – Brief Coffee - A Growing Industry in Trinidad
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1920/1924 ?Item number (ISN):416051Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.Accession:1972-0105Media:FilmPart:2 of 2Production date:1920/1924 ?Description:The film begins with the following inter-title; "Nature has richly endowed Trinidad with soil suitable for growing coffee." Long-shots of different mountain views, river creek, flowers. Labourers picking beans, and pouring the beans into burlap sacs which are weighed and transported by donkey back down the hill. Part one ends with a shot of the base camp, where the beans are emptied. Part two begins, "Pulp is removed by special machine." Shot of the beans being strained through machinery. Long shot of the drying houses. Raking the beans. City transport trucks unloading the sacs of beans, onto a conveyor belt, where the beans are then processed and bagged for shipment. The film ends with a shot of a couple enjoying a cup of coffee. <7mn 43s>Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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