The Tea Girls - A Harvest Study in Assam, India

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

259

Date Released

20 May 1926

Length of issue (in feet)

910

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

Pathe Intertitles - "Tea girls - not the kind who hand out the beverage with the buns, but the ladies who spend the sunlit hours in planting the seed -".
"And protecting them from the great heat of the sun -".
"A year later the tea girls transplant the young seedlings -".
"Five years pass before Eve can get busy on the plucking of the matured plant."
"The young leaves are green but the girls (being handsome) are slightly sunburnt".
"The Eve starts for the weighing in. (Tea stakes.)"
"Bullock carts take over the green leaf en route for the factory, and Eve’s job is over."

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list of this item appears in the Pathe boxfile

Keywords

Agriculture

Locations

India; Assam

Written sources

J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p128.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet

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Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

200

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