A Classroom Film - Sugarcane Harvest 1940-1949

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Title reads: "British Instructional Films Ltd presents a Classroom Film - Sugarcane Harvest".

Egypt.

Egyptian landscape. Sugarcane fields. Men chopping the cane by hand. C/U of them chopping with machete-like tools. Large number of people working in the fields. The leaves are peeled...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
70759
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:12:36:00 / 01:16:26:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
1621.03
Issue Date:
1940 - 1949

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