SUGAR AND FIJI
This film is held by the BFI (ID: 295107).
Synopsis
Travelogue on life and work in Fiji.
Village scenes. The history of Fiji and plantation agriculture. Leased farming. Labasa airport. A steam train. Village schools and markets. Family farms, milking, ploughing. Fertilisers. Sugar, recording sunlight hours, crossbreeding. Village worked plantations, the distribution of tasks, harvesting. The sugar being delivered to the mill railway and being supervised by the mill rep. The refining process at the mill. The testing of raw sugar. Hospitals at Labasa. Nadi airport.
Titles
- SUGAR AND FIJI
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1962
- Running Time:
- 38 minutes
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Sound
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- Australia
- Director
- COLLINGS, Geoffrey
- Sponsor
- Colonial Sugar Refining Company
- commentator
- GINN, Stewart
- Editor
- CAMPBELL, Judy
- Editor
- HOWE, Neil
- Graphics
- COLLINGS, Dahl
- Photography
- HORNER, Ron
- Production Company
- Collings Productions Pty Ltd
- Sound
- CURLL, Cliff