Sugar Refining In British Guiana (1953)

Georgetown, British Guiana GV Diamond sugar grinding plant. MS barges full of sugar cane. VS cane lifted out of barges onto platform and pushed into grinding machine. CU sugar cane. Var CUs workers barges and cane fields. Top shot (from crane) of cane being lifted. MS 250 lb sacks of demerara sugar ready to load on barges. VS women walking through field carrying belongings on their heads. VS man cutting sugar can with a machete. VS men carrying bundles of cane on their heads to men and women workers walking through fields. MS overseer (European) on horse. GVs fields and factory. (Orig. Neg.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Gr