Cocoa Growing 1966

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Ghana, Africa.

VS growing, picking, ripening of cocoa beans for shipment. Cocoa pods cut from trees and carried in large baskets on workers' heads. The pods are smashed open and cocoa beans pulled out on to a pile of large leaves spread on the ground and then covered with more leaves under...

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Cataloguer:
Agnew
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
89848
Sort Number:
UN 4159 E
Time in/Out:
01:50:17:00 / 01:56:28:00
Canister:
UN 4159 E
Film ID:
3208.26
Issue Date:
1966

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