Tea Growing In Ceylon (1960-1969)

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Ceylon (Sri Lanka). LS and MS A line of women and girls walking with their wicker collecting baskets to gather tea on the plantation fields. Various shots, the women work across the field, making their way over the hillside picking tea. MS and CU A woman wading up to her waist through the tea bushes, picking the top leaves and throwing them into the basket on her back. Pan down the hill, to a group of workers sitting by the road with their baskets. Each in turn empties their basket of leaves into the scales and the farm foreman enters the weight into a book. The tea is loaded into the back of lorry which drives away. LS Worker loads sacks of tea onto a cable which hoists the load up the hillside. MS Line of women pickers coming down off a field. LS The sacks of tea being taken along by the cable. Various shots, the tea leaves being spread on drying racks. Various shots, men taking cuttings from the tea and planting them in the