Banana Plantation (1971)

Colour. Unedited material. Various shots of black workers on a banana plantation in the West Indies. They are handed slips of paper - possibly wage slips. Short shot of a girl dancing from low angle. Various shots of work in progress. Land Rover being driven through the plantation. Farmer walks up a hill towards the workers. A young boy helps to carry a metal container up the hill. A machete is used to cut the plants. High angle shot of a river. C/U of the foreman as he watches the workers. They seem to be digging up banana plants or clearing the ground for planting banana plants. 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 Graphic (1910-1932), E