Cocoa Growing (1966)

Ghana, Africa. VS growing, picking, ripening of cocoa beans for shipment. Cocoa pods cut from trees and carried in large baskets on workers’ heads. The pods are smashed open and cocoa beans pulled out on to a pile of large leaves spread on the ground and then covered with more leaves under the cocoa trees. The beans dried dark brown. Sign ’Cadbury & Fry’ over building with cocoa beans on the ground in front of it. VS of the cocoa being loaded for shipment. Interpos Note: good footage. 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), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well