Introductory intertitle reads: "Nowadays, everything is on the grand scale. Where once we thought in thousands, nothing less than millions will do today. Ingenious machines flood the world with a myriad volumes."
Panning shot of a printing press. C/U of pages being printed - roll of typesetting...
Introductory intertitle reads: "Nowadays, everything is on the grand scale. Where once we thought in thousands, nothing less than millions will do today. Ingenious machines flood the world with a myriad volumes."
Panning shot of a printing press. C/U of pages being printed - roll of typesetting is pressed against paper. M/S of pamphlets moving through a machine. High angle shot of men working on conveyor belt pulling pamphlets out of the machine and stacking them. High angle shot of the factory floor. Women work at benches packing books.
"You don't go down the Strand and have a banana.... at the Docks a million are unloaded in a few hours." Low angle shot of a large cargo ship - the word "Jamaica" is painted on the side. C/U of large pile of bunches of bananas. Rather dark shot of bananas being loaded into hold. Low angle shot of the system used to unload bananas from the ship onto the quayside. They are lowered by means of a pulley system which seems to cradle the bananas in fabric. Side view of the pulley system working. M/S of man who stands at the bottom of the pulley system rolling the bananas out of their little cradle. L/S of the pulley system. M/S of bunches of bananas travelling along a conveyor belt.
"At the Mint, too, coins pour out in a never-ending stream... the march of millions, though, somehow, few seem to come our way!" Various shots of money being stamped from metal, pouring into collecting containers, falling off conveyor belt etc.
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