Eve and the Bean

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

498

Date Released

18 Dec 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

879

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 7

Summary

NoS Summary - The harvesting and grading coffee beans in the West Indies.
NoS synopsis: "Coffee plantations in the West Indies keep quite a lot of natives out of mischief -" Various shots of a smartly dressed West Indian man looking at branch from a coffee plant, then at basket containing coffee berries. "The berries are taken to the Mill and lose their outer husk, each berry separating into two beans." M/S of men walking away from the camera carrying baskets of coffee berries on their heads. C/U of a berry being squeezed to release two coffee beans. M/S of man standing at the bottom of a chute in a huge pile of beans. He shovels the beans away from the chute as they descend. M/S of man working in shallow water washing the beans. M/S of workers filling buckets and boxes with beans. Various shots of the workers spreading out the beans to dry in the sun. "When they’re dried the beans possess a skin tougher than a hardhearted Tax Collector - but it has to go - " C/U of hands of a worker who removes the skins by hand. "Eve comes well into her own in the next picture, when they arrive at the grading stage - " M/S of women picking through the beans.

Researcher Comments

A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile, as is a handwritten draft of these intertitles.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Agriculture

Locations

West Indies

Footage sources

Pathe Re-issue

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.202
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP202
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

173

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