| SUGAR HARVEST IN TAIWAN Nationalist Chinese harvest a $100,000,000 sugar crop. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8674 |
| Catalog #: | 111214 | |
| Clip Number: | 111214-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 3159 D | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Formosa (Taiwan) | |
| Year Shot: | 1958 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FARMING: Misc | |
| Description: | SUGAR HARVEST IN TAIWAN Nationalist Chinese harvest a $100,000,000 sugar crop. Formosa (Taiwan) Long shots: aerials of typical sugar plantations in Ping Tung area of southwest Taiwan. Narrow gauge railways carry hundreds of workers to the cane fields for beginning of harvest (LS MCU ). Hundreds of workers leave train most of them women who perform lighter taks (LS MS CU ) Harvest scenes: MCU Cane cutters walking to fields. Long pan of cane cutters walking to fields. LS Girls cutting cane. MCU Girls cutting cane. Pan shot of cane cutters at work. MS Two girls in field. LS Men and women in field. CU Girl with stalk of cane. MCU Girls take rest period in field. MCU Curved machete cutting cane. CU of a typical Taiwan girl harvester tasting fresh cut cane. LS Girl cane cutters resting. LS Mechanical conveyors carry piles of cane from field to nearby tractor-drawn cart (2 shots). LS MCU Loaded carts being drawn from field. Cut-in shots of driver of tractor. CU of crane carts. LS Cane being transferred from cane carts to narrow gauge railway cars. Aerial shots of cane fields after cutting. LS MS Sugar refinery at Ping Tung as long train of cane ears arrives. MS Cane trains arriving at refinery. (and CU ) Reverse long shot of cane cars dumping cane into conveyor. MS CU Men carrying 100lb. bags of raw sugar from refinery. CU Sugar bags on train. MS at dockside at Kaohsiung as bags of sugar are brought to ships for export. At dockside cradle lift bags of sugar to deck of ship. LS at Koihsiung dock as ships wait to take on sugar. | |
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