CADBURY FILM COLLECTION
- Description
- Cadbury were trading in cocoa on the Gold Coast by 1907 and as early as 1913 began using film for promotional purposes.
- Website
- http://www.cadbury.co.uk
- Keywords
- Advertising films; Bournville; Cocoa, cultivation; Ghana; Gold Coast (Ghana)
- Access
- Access limited to loans to major organisations with their own viewing facilities, not to members of the public.
Moving Image, Audio and Related Documentation Holdings
- Video/Film
- Film: The Collection includes feature films: 56 films on 16mm, from the 1920s to 1950s, mostly showing the growing and transport of cocoa beans in and around the Gold Coast, and subsequent processing in the Bournville factory, including scenes of daily life at Bournville. (Copies of 26 feature films on 16mm have been deposited with the National Film and Television Archive), and advertising films: 570 cans of film on 35mm, including cinema and TV adverts for Cadbury brands from 1950s to 1970s. Advertising, documentary, feature films.
Main Contact
- Name
- Ms. Sarah Foden
- Job title
- Library and Archives
- Telephone
- 0121-458 2000 ex 3518
- Fax
- 0121 451 4333
- Address
- Bournville
PO Box 12
Birmingham
B30 2LU
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