Synopsis
This black & white educational film from Cadbury Brothers Limited is about harvesting cocoa in Ghana, West Africa, where the Cadbury company maintained (and still maintains) plantations. It was directed by A.R. Taylor and photographed by famed cinematographer Skeets Kelly, and copyright 1948. Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British confectionery company now owned by Mondelez International. It was established in Birmingham, England in 1824, by John Cadbury, a Quaker who sold tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. Cadbury was one of the big three British candy manufacturers throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Opening title: Cadbury Brothers presents COCOA HARVEST (:06-:28). Gold Coast in Africa. Trees. A village in West Africa. Little children smile. Lots of people mill about, cars are parked. Children play, dance, in the school yard. Children do stretches and exercises, some run. Children in class being taught by a teacher who uses a chalkboard (2:35-4:12). People head into the jungle to harvest the cocoa. A man hacks at a tree with a machete. People carry baskets on their heads and fill them with cocoa pods. Cocoa pods are cut off trees. Pods are cracked and open and beans are scooped out by women and children (4:13-6:15). Women grab the beans and throw away the pod. Men hack at the pods to open them. A child eats. A man hacks a tree and cuts it down. Leaves are cut and spread out (6:16-7:44). Leaves are carried and placed on the ground. Pods…
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Details
- Running time
- 19 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Cocoa Harvest
- 1948
- Cadbury Bros
- Ghana West Africa
- Stock Footage
- Periscope Film