Sunshine For Export (1949)

Titles read: ’Alpha Studios Present - Sunshine For Export’. c 1949 C/U of feet walking along rainy (studio) street; pan to man selling newspapers with headline ’Exports Reach Record Level’ - (illustrates Britain). Cut to South African street scene where a black African man is selling newspapers with headline ’Drive To Boost South Africa Exports’. Industrial plants. Map of South Africa, showing where different good originate from. People working on farm. Sheared wool. Diamonds being polished and examined. Wine kegs and distillery machinery. Leather skins are dried and cut; fade into leather shoes in shop window (great platform sandals among them!). Young girl with blonde plaits helps her grandmother make jam in a kitchen. Several shots in cannery. Table shows ’Union’s Major Exports’ for 1949. Fruit in boxes. Scenic shots of countryside and farmland. Villages around Cape canneries where workers live. Workers on fruit farms. C/Us of fruit growing. Women peeling peaches in cannery. Other