Banana Plantation Aka Banana Story Footage

BANANA PLANTATION (aka BANANA STORY)
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	6012
	Catalog #:	109163
	Clip Number:	109163-1
	Orginal Film:	CP 127
	Timecode:	01:30:01 - 01:34:46
	Location:	Jamaica
	Year Shot:	1957 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	FARMING: Fruit, Bananas HORTICULTURE/PLANTS & TREES: Bananas INDUSTRY: Food, Fruits and Vegatables LOCATIONS/CARIBBEAN: Jamaica
	Description:	JAMAICAN BANANA STORY Jamaica MS Colorful landscape. MS Ditto. Another landscape. MS Tractor coming through banana plantation towing a spraying machine. BCU Front of tractor. Pan up to show the spraying machine coming through the plantation. CU Driver as he passes the camera followed by the sprayer. MS Banana plantation a man walks towards a plant and starts to open a leaf. MCU The man opening the leaf. BCU Leaf being opened to display the young bananas. CU Man's face. CU Banana plant. Pan slowly up it showing the ripening fruit. BCU A banana plant. MS Man tending a banana plant on the plantation. Group of men with bunches of bananas on their heads pass the camera. MS Man starting to cut down a banana plant which gradually falls. BCU As the banana plant comes down. Man lifts up a bunch of bananas and puts it on his head and walks out of picture. MS Horseman probably an overseer passes camera. MS Group of men carrying bananas pass a man with a sharp knife who cuts the stalks off as they pass. CU Man cutting stalks. MS Ditto at a different angle. MS The men walking towards a pit where they dump their bunches of bananas. MS Native woman paying the men as they pass her having dumped their bananas. MCU Woman paying the men. MS Ditto at another angle. MS Trailer half loaded passes camera. MS Tractor and trailer stop beside a large stack of bananas. MS Two men loading bananas onto the trailer. CU Reverse angle of man on the trailer receiving a bunch of bananas. CU Man on the ground handing his mate a bunch of bananas. MS Loading. MS Man scattering what looks like water from a pail onto the ground. This is called wetting trash. MCU Tash being wetted. MS Fully loaded trailer moving out of picture. MS Lorry backing into washing shed (fully loaded with bananas.) MS Two men unloading lorry pan down to show bunches of bananas being placed into a washing bin. CU Bananas being taken out of the first washing bin and placed into the second. GS. Washing going on. CU Bananas being placed into second wash. MS Bunch of bananas being given to a workman who puts a polythene bag over it. MCU Woman untying the end of a polythene bag and sealing the stalk of the bunch of bananas. BCU Stalk being sealed. MS Bananas being loaded onto a truck. BCU Man signaling to an engine which is backing onto a train. MS Little engine backs onto the train carrying bananas. MS Train coming towards the camera dragging the trucks full of bananas. MS Trucks full of bananas being shunted onto pontoon. MS Trucks going onto the pontoons. MS Engine pushing the trucks. MS Pontoons being punted away from the platforms. MS Pontoons in mid-stream. MS Ditto. MS Tug pulling the barge. MS Banana boat with barges alongside. MS As we pan slowly down banana boat. MS Taken from the boat of a tug pulling up a pontoon laden with bananas. MS Men loading bananas onto a boat. MCU Ditto. MS Taken from in the boat of bananas being thrust through the hold. MS Scenic shot of banana boat taken from the land.