| CEYLON TODAY Building of new airfield, tea picking and process of obtaining rubber from trees in Ceylon. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6431 | |
| Catalog #: | 59871 | |
| Clip Number: | 59871-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 42/82 | |
| Timecode: | 01:12:35 - 01:15:13 | |
| Location: | Ceylon | |
| Year Shot: | 1942 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Elephants CONSTRUCTION: Earth Movers FARMING: Tea INDUSTRY: Logging & Lumber / Timber INDUSTRY: Rubber INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Colonialism LOCATIONS/ASIA: Sri Lanka (Ceylon) | |
| Description: | CEYLON TODAY Ceylon VS Bulldozer at workpushing down trees in the wooded areas of Ceylon the start of the building of an airfield. MS Elephant with man on its back doing its share by lifting tree trunks with tusks and trunk. MS Men and women at work on building airfield. MS Tea pickers at work in fields. VS Tea baskets are brought in weighed up and paid for. VS Tapping rubber trees and sap cups being collected. VS Rubber sap is poured into moulds. VS The sponge latex is put through rollers after it sets and comes out as pure rubber. VS Young rubber trees being bud-grafted. This means a bud of good quality high yielding tree is grafted onto young rubber trees. | |
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