Cinemagazine on cocoa production in Tobago.

"Photographics Present...Cocoa". A waterfall in Tobago, in the British West Indies. The history of the cocoa bean. Men knock pods from trees, women put them into baskets with a cutlass (c10-90). Women carry the pods back to the yard using baskets on their heads (97). Women split the pods and extract the beans with a cutlass (120). The beans are glossed to make them higher grade - a heap of beans is shovelled into a pile on the beach, a man splashes water on them from a bucket, then a water can (148). "After wetting, natives dance on the beans with bare feet to produce the gloss" (173). The beans are laid out to dry (180). Women opening a box of chocolates (189). "Sugar". Women and men hoe the ground in Barbados (206). Two men cut cane, overseen by a white supervisor, women carry the cane away (228). The cane is stacked onto a cart drawn by horned oxen. Two carts are drawn by a small tractor(?). Shot from the first floor(?) of a building of carts arriving in a yard (300). "Hoisting the cane on transporters to be put on carriers to factory where the sugar is pressed from the cane". The sugar cane is hoisted using a crane-type contraption (326). Women carry baskets of crushed cane (megrass) and dump it on a heap (344). "Sugar forms a staple diet for the negroes and makes them fat and sleek". Two women dance together by the megrass heap, other women laugh (352). Men and women eat sugar cane during their break. A title card explains how it then becomes a sugar lump (359ft 16mm).