Amateur film. The tobacco industry in Andhra Pradesh, particularly at Chirala, about 200 miles north of Madras on the east coast. Possibly shot by an H.D.Wills employee.

"Views from trains and car": countryside and villages. "Tobacco fields - Virginia and native types": white man in a field inspects the tobacco crop; closeups of plants. "Flue curing barns and native racks": brick curing barns; Indians; packing cases; tobacco drying on native wooden racks is inspected by two Europeans. "Buying tobacco at the I.L.T.D. Company's depots": tobacco bales being lashed onto bullock cart by Indian porters; bales being inspected by a European prior to purchase. "Grading and stemming tobacco at the depots": several hundred Indians, mostly women, in corrugated-iron covered open structure grading leaves into boxes ; Indian overseers wandering through the lines; European supervisor. "Chirala factory panorama". "Workpeople leaving factory": (colour) crowd of Indians walking home. "Tobacco auction at Chirala reception room": bales of tobacco on bullock carts waiting in line; unloading and trolleying crates into the building; train leaving platform (b/w) ; bales in storeroom. "Grading and stemming tobacco, Chirala": (col) graders/stemmers at work inside brick building; overseers. "Redrying and packing": (b/w) Indians working among packing cases; man pulling leaves off rotary drying(?) drums; the leaves fall onto a conveyor which takes them to a hopper, which deposits them in a large barrel in which a man stamps them down; three packers nail up and hoop a barrel. "Shipping": Indians load barrels onto train; train leaves Chorala station. "Competitor's plant, Vetapalemu": small factory seen from train.