The Lime Pickers of British Guiana

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
173
Date Released
25 Sep 1924
Length of issue (in feet)
890
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Lime Pickers of British Guiana
  2. 2Rubber Muscles - How Broadway trains its girls for Acrobatic dancing.
  3. 3For Eve, Eva and Every Little Girlie
  4. 4The Adventures of Felix the Cat -: Felix Still Chases a Meal

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 4
Summary
Pathe Intertitles - "Before you get your lime juice, there’s the picking --"
"In British Guiana all handsome girls are slightly sunburnt ---"
"Now, the River, where they (limes, not the girls) are washed and passed into the factory to have the juice extracted and filtered ---"
Researcher Comments
A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
Keywords
Women; Agriculture
Locations
British Guiana
Written sources
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001)   p127.
Pathe Eve 170-210 Boxfile   Issue sheet
Credits:
Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
160

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