BRITISH GUIANA - LOCAL SCENES

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 605211).

Synopsis

Scenes in British Guiana. Local village life; sugar cane plantation work; cattle ranching; forest bird life; Amazonian Indian village; river rafting.

Kytor Falls. Women washing clothes in the river. Girl in hat. Street with river and houses in background. Bullock cart. Bullocks ploughing paddy field. Three women threshing rice. Combine harvester in field. Sugar cane on railway trucks. Sugar cane factory. Workers. Women with bundles of cane on their heads. Planting sugar cane. Women weeding. Burning sugar cane at night. Man gathering sugar cane. Cane on barge Loaded barges being pulled by horse. Factory . The offices. Cane being lifted from barge - crane lifting it. Cane being put into crusher. Offices (272). Road in Mackenzie. Footbridge over canal. Man fishing. Workers carrying tools walking down street. Man and woman going upstairs into house. Boys diving in canal. Swimming pool in factory. Kytor falls. Jeep passing road, going along track, wheel of jeep, jeep in wood, and through village. Two horsemen riding into village. Rounding up cattle Assorted shots of round up in stock yard. Lassoing and branding. Sorting cattle (664). Wild pig. Birds. River mountains and forests. Village filmed from boat. Boat leaving village. Boat on river. Canoe. River birds. Forested gorge. Large water lily. Palm fronds at river edge. Large spider. Crocodile. Waterfalls (912). People leaving church. Man going into temple. South American Indian dancers. Men firing bows and arrows. Man with blowpipe and dart. Bark canoes. Aerial view of waterfall. Children in canoe returning to village. (998). British Guiana Airways DC 3 aeroplane being loaded by Indians. Officials. Group of Indian women. DC3 taxiing and taking off. (1031). Loading boat. River bank from boat. Boat going through rapids (1150ft).

 

Titles

  • BRITISH GUIANA - LOCAL SCENES (Archive)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1951
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm Film
Colour:
Colour (Ektachrome)
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
1150 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Great Britain
Photography
JEAKINS, A.E.
 

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