Sugar Harvest

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1539A

Date Released

4 Dec 1958

Date submitted

1 Dec 1958

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Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sugar Harvest. DESCRIPTION: Formosa, and the big news of the moment is the big Autumn harvest. Formosa is the world’s second largest exporter of sugar, and the present harvest is worth about thirty million pounds. A lot of the work is done by girl volunteers from the towns. SHOTLIST: MS girls cut sugar cane. GV pan same. MS same. CU girl cuts and trims cane. CU girl tastes cane. Closer - same. MS conveyor stalks of cane on wagon. CU cane on wagon. LS cane lowered onto truck. GV train loads approach factory. CU cane on trucks. GV trains enter factory.

Keywords

Vehicles; Women; Agriculture; Industry and manufacture

Locations

Formosa

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

75655

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner

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