COLONIAL CINEMAGAZINE NO.23

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 366700).

Synopsis

Nigeria: Palm oil mill. A modern method of palm oil extraction. Gold Coast: Houses to last. A quick and inexpensive way of building houses.

'Nigeria - a Modern Method of Palm Oil Extraction' Two men walk to palm oil mill with palm fruits. Contents weighed and payment made. Palm fruit put into boiler, the skin and fibre and seperated from the nuts. Pans with nuts to extractor where oil is extracted into drums.

Gold Coast - Houses that Last' Kumasi suburb housing estate. Blocks of laterite being made. Dug up first and taken away in a lorry where blocks are made with molding machine. They are then dried for a week. Houses being built with blocks, scenes of finished estate.

 

Titles

  • COLONIAL CINEMAGAZINE NO.23
Series Title:
COLONIAL CINEMAGAZINE
 

Technical Data

Year:
1948
Running Time:
10 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm Film
Colour:
Black/White
Footage:
961 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Great Britain
Production Company
Colonial Film Unit
 

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Production Organisations